Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun, plural rep·er·to·ries.
- a type of theatrical presentation in which a company presents several works regularly or in alternate sequence in one season.
- a theatrical company that presents productions in this manner.
- repertoire.
- a store or stock of things available.
- storehouse.
noun plural -ries
- the entire stock of things available in a field or of a kind; repertoire
- a building or place where a stock of things is kept; repository
- short for repertory company
1550s, “an index, list, catalogue,” from Late Latin repertorium “inventory, list,” from Latin repertus, past participle of reperire “to find, get, invent,” from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + parire, archaic form of paerere “produce, bring forth,” from PIE root *per- “attempt” (see parent (n.)). Meaning “list of performances” is first recorded 1845, from Anglicized use of repertoire; repertory theater is attested from 1896. Related: Repertorial.