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road company
noun
- a theatrical group that tours cities and towns, usually performing a single play that is or has been a success in New York City.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of road company1
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
Brickman also invested in the road company of Phantom of the Opera, which benefitted Andrew Lloyd Webber, another Starr client.
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Frohman was now able to capitalize his brilliant road-company experience.
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He knew better than to copy after the ordinary actors in the road company to which he belonged.
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The loss to the Rail Road Company is probably six hundred dollars.
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Accordingly a road company took hold of the route and improved it—placing toll gates on it for recompensation.
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On more than one occasion the road company sent and had these fences removed and opened the original road afresh.
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