repertory company
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈrɛpərˌtɔri ˈkʌmpəni/
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compañía de repertorio
- After joining the repertory company, the actor enjoyed performing different roles each week.
- repertory company of actors
- repertory company in the theater
Examples
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There are pick-up companies that come together for specific performances and then disband, and there are repertory companies in which a dancer is asked to dance many different styles, even within a single evening.
Academic text (2000) -
Her great-grandmother sang with the Calhoun repertory company.
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"They have a good repertory company.
Fiction book (2001) -
We were in his repertory company in Middlesbrough.
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She started college, quit, and joined a repertory company.
Fiction book (1998) -
She waited tables, joined another repertory company, waited tables some more, and took acting lessons when she could afford them.
Fiction book (1998) -
Last I heard, she was doing Medea, Blanche Dubois, and Lady Macbeth for some repertory company up in Canada.
Fiction book (1997) -
Capitalizing on OSF's large repertory company, the playwright employs 17 actors to portray more than 50 characters.
Blog text (16) -
The two lawyers chuckled, but the neurosurgeon seemed disturbed by this conversation and by the camaraderie that suggested maybe he hadn't been involved in a battle between good and evil, but had been a bit player in a repertory company.
Fiction book (1993) -
The local repertory company performs a variety of plays throughout the year.
Synonyms
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3.5
A group of actors, dancers, or other performers who work together
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7.4
A theater group that performs different plays on a regular schedule
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2.7
A group of people who put on plays for an audience
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2.7
A group of local people who are not professional and perform plays for people in their town
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6.8
Plays put on by a local theatre group in the summer at holiday places
A group of actors who perform a set of plays regularly in one theatre
How Regular
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'repertory' (relating to a repertoire of works) combined with 'company' (a theatrical troupe) yields a troupe that regularly performs a set repertoire. This noun+noun combination follows regular English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Repertory company comes from repertory, related to the word 'repertoire' meaning a set list of plays, and company meaning a group of actors. These groups kept that set list and took turns performing the same plays, so today the phrase means a group of actors who regularly perform a selection of plays.