noun

• (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
• (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
• (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)

verb

• (transitive) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• (intransitive) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
  "Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world."
• (ambitransitive) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.
  "Norbourne was almost thankful for any excuse that enabled him to avoid seeing Lady Marchmont. In vain he sought to rally his spirits, and to conceal his depression; but the idea of Ethel mocked his efforts to forget."
• (business, trading, of the market, stocks etc., intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices.
  "Bitcoin has still plunged in value by almost two-thirds this year, it should be said. But it has also rallied by about 10% since the downwards lurch when FTX filed for bankruptcy in mid-November, which is extraordinary."

verb

• (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
  "But you must not rally him on the subject Sir Oliver—'tis a tender Point I assure you though He has been married only seven months."