round robin

Meanings

1. 1
   noun The part of a tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn.
2. 2
   noun A petition signed in a circular fashion to disguise the order in which it was done.
3. 3
   noun A letter, with copies to multiple recipients, usually at Christmastime and often enclosed with a card, giving family news of interest to the sender.
4. 4
   noun A method of dividing loot amongst a party of players by having the game assign in turn loot to a player or an enemy corpse to loot to a player.
5. 5
   noun A form of trade, wherein a stamp collector sends a packet of stamps to the next person on a list, who then takes the stamps he wants, replacing them with like-valued stamps, and then passing the packet to the next person on the list, until the packet ultimately returns to the original sender.
6. 6
   noun A method of dividing labor between several similar subsystems, assigning tasks to each of them in turn in an attempt to use resources more equitably.