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show business
noun
- the entertainment industry, as theater, motion pictures, television, radio, carnival, and circus.
show business
noun
- the entertainment industry, including theatre, films, television, and radio Informal termshow biz
Word History and Origins
Origin of show business1
Example Sentences
Again, these are two of the funniest people in show business.
But how could you a call a signature talent that shone for more than four decades in show business tiresome?
Not, of course, in the show business sense of the word; as a filmmaker, Soderbergh arrived long ago.
Her ballerinas are not aiming to enter show business, but rather to offer their community the transformative gift of dance.
His decision reflected a quality—largely extinct in show business now—called integrity.
The public wants to see midgets and fully fifty percent of these are now engaged in some form of show business.
In the show-business a bull is a bull, whether it's a lady-bull or a gentleman-bull.
"I guess this will be the end of the show business," she added to Mrs. Watson who had stopped in for a few minutes' talk.
They were in the show business, too, and they traveled under several different names.
It's always the best time for the show business—'tisn't like a circus—that does best in the summer time.
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