rehearsalnoun [ C or U ]
uk/rəˈhɜː.səl/us/rəˈhɝː.səl/B2 a time when all the people involved in a play, dance, etc. practise in order to prepare for a performance:
They didn't have time for (a) rehearsal before the performance.
He's a producer with three plays in rehearsal.
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- She hasn't learned her lines yet, and we've got our first rehearsal tomorrow.
- The dancers were dripping with sweat after a morning's rehearsal.
- We whizzed through the rehearsal, so that we'd be finished by lunchtime.
- I've got a rehearsal tonight.
- The play is currently in rehearsal.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cinema & theatre: production, direction & recording
- audition
- auteur
- computer-animated
- direct
- director
- dress rehearsal
- editor
- effect
- filmmaker
- make
- moviemaker
- picturize
- prop
- run-through
- set
- setting
- special effect
- stage
- staging
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