| 单词 | house manager |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse manager house manager n. originally U.S. (a) a person who runs a household; spec. a housekeeper or steward; (b) the manager of a theatre, club, concert hall, hotel, etc. (cf. earlier playhouse manager n. at playhouse n. Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > theatre manager stage-keepera1586 actor-manager1826 actress-manageress1888 house manager1894 player-manager1895 intendant1958 1836 E. Robinson Greek & Eng. Lexicon of New Test. 561/2 A house-manager, overseer, steward. 1894 A. Thayer Ah There! 250 After the first act the manager of the company was greatly discouraged [by the lack of applause]..and, going to the house manager, he said: ‘Well, they don't appear to like us.’ 1922 R. Wright in E. R. Peyser Cheating the Junk-pile Introd. p. xiii The housewife of today is to her home what a man is to his office. She is a house manager, a Domiologist. 1968 M. Culpan Vasiliko Affair ii. 14 The house-manager, a courteous but wary young man in a dinner jacket. 1998 Indianapolis Monthly Mar. 212/2 The couple retains only one full-time staffer, a house manager whose main job is to ‘employ the other services the house requires’. 2004 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Dec. a18/6 The management decided that the performance could not go on, and the house manager was dispatched to break the news to the audience. < as lemmas |
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