# repertory

Pronunciation: US say "REP-er-tor-ee" /ˈɹɛp.əɹˌtɔɹ.i/; UK say "REP-uh-tree" /ˈɹɛpətɹi/

## Noun

1. A theater whose resident company stages works from a set repertoire, usually alternating them.
   - Simple: A theater where its own group of actors puts on a set list of plays, often switching between them.
   - _After drama school he joined a repertory in the Midwest, playing a new part almost every week._
   - _This season the new comedy runs in repertory with Hamlet, the two alternating night by night._
2. The particular set of works that a performing company presents.
   - Simple: All the shows or pieces that a group of performers puts on.
   - _The company's repertory includes nine Shakespeare plays, any of which it can stage on short notice._
   - _Funding cuts forced the troupe to shrink its repertory to a handful of crowd-pleasers._
3. A repertoire: the full range of pieces, skills, or techniques that someone can perform or draw on.
   - Simple: All the songs, skills, or tricks that a person knows and can use.
   - _Her repertory of folk songs runs to well over a hundred titles._
   - _A good coach helps young chess players widen their repertory of openings._
4. A movie theater that specializes in showing classic or older films.
   - Simple: A movie theater that mostly shows old or classic movies.
   - _The city's last repertory house still runs double features of 1940s crime films on Fridays._
   - _Streaming has made life hard for repertory cinemas that depend on fans of classic films._
5. A collection or store of things, or the place where a collection is kept.
   - Simple: A group of things kept together, or the place where they are kept.
   - _The archive is a vast repertory of letters, maps, and photographs from the war years._
   - _The abbey's library served as a repertory for manuscripts gathered from across the region._

## Origin

A learned borrowing from Late Latin repertōrium. It is a doublet of repertoire.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/repertory (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).