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show business

noun

  1. the entertainment industry, as theater, motion pictures, television, radio, carnival, and circus.


show business

noun

  1. the entertainment industry, including theatre, films, television, and radio Informal termshow biz
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of show business1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

“I got kicked out of show business,” she jokes in her Netflix special, “For Your Approval,” which premiered on the streaming service in late September.

A lot of the markers of show business are not friendly to me, like a Step and Repeat is my absolute worst nightmare.”

But timing is everything in show business, and Farrow wasn’t sure whether this unstable moment in American political history was the right time to make a Broadway return.

Her first real success came in television commercials, and she dropped out of Cal State Northridge after studying speech and drama for two years to try show business full-time.

Jack Jones, a prolific nightclub singer whom Frank Sinatra once called the “next major star of show business,” has died at age 86.

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