A repertory company is a group of actors and actresses who perform a small number of plays for just a few weeks at a time. They work in a repertory theatre.
...a well-known repertory company in Boston.
He was in repertory in Dundee.
2. singular noun [usually poss NOUN]
A performer's repertory is all the plays or pieces of music that he or she has learned and can perform.
Her repertory was vast and to her it seemed that each song told some part of herlife.
More Synonyms of repertory
repertory in British English
(ˈrɛpətərɪ, -trɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-ries
1.
the entire stock of things available in a field or of a kind; repertoire
2.
a building or place where a stock of things is kept; repository
3. short for repertory company
Derived forms
repertorial (ˌreperˈtorial)
adjective
Word origin
C16: from Late Latin repertōrium storehouse, from Latin reperīre to obtain, from re- + parere to bring forth
repertory in American English
(ˈrɛpərˌtɔri; ˈrɛpəˌtɔri)
nounWord forms: pluralˈreperˌtories
1.
a.
a repository for useful things; storehouse
b.
the things stored; stock; collection
2.
repertoire
3.
the system of producing and presenting plays, operas, etc. engaged in by repertory theaters
Word origin
LL repertorium, an inventory < L repertus, pp. of reperire, to find out, discover < re-, again + parere, to produce, invent, bear: see -parous
Examples of 'repertory' in a sentence
repertory
He first found work with a Bolton repertory company.
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He gained further acting experience in repertory theatre.
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Earlier generations gained practice from time spent in the repertory system and a thriving commercial touring circuit.
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These pieces are considered some of the hardest works in the standard repertory.
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He also directed, presented and acted in many provincial tours and repertory seasons.
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Home for the next eight years was a series of boarding houses as she did the provincial seaside resorts and more repertory theatres.
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He spent many years with repertory theatre companies in England.
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After three months she moved to a repertory theatre in Oldham.
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It remained in the company 's repertory for many years and was its first international triumph.
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During the holidays he acted with a repertory company in Devon.
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Through such volumes many Americans first encountered hymns that were to become part of the standard repertory.
Christianity Today (2000)
At that time he was first conductor in Hamburg and spoke of the difficulties inherent in the repertory system.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since1945 (2003)
While at school she was involved in local drama groups and she subsequently acted with the local repertory company in Oldham.
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He had auditions for drama schools but chose to do the apprenticeship that repertorytheatre provides, and he was spotted quickly by critics.
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If the government was going to spend this money on the theatre, it would be much better off giving grants to provincial repertory theatres.
Simon Ball THE GUARDSMEN (2004)
It's just that what's part of the canon or theatre repertory is different.
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The stage is where her heart lies, she admitted, looking back on her days in repertory theatre.
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It was a bohemian few years after her parents' divorce, following her mother from place to place as she worked in repertory theatre.
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The management staunchly defended its policy of at least eight new opera and ballet productions a year, as "the lifeblood of a repertory company '.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since1945 (2003)
(noun)
Definition
Her repertory of songs was vast.
Synonyms
repertoire
an impressive repertoire of funny stories
list
range
The two men discussed a range of issues.
stock
a stock of food and other rations
supply
The brain requires a constant supply of oxygen.
store
I handed over my store of chocolate biscuits.
collection
He has gathered a large collection of prints and paintings over the years.
repository
The church became a repository for police files.
Additional synonyms
in the sense of collection
Definition
things collected or accumulated
He has gathered a large collection of prints and paintings over the years.
Synonyms
accumulation,
set,
store,
mass,
pile,
heap,
stockpile,
hoard,
aggregate,
congeries
in the sense of range
Definition
a whole set of related things
The two men discussed a range of issues.
Synonyms
series,
variety,
selection,
assortment,
lot,
collection,
gamut
in the sense of repository
Definition
a place or container in which things can be stored for safety