road show
nounDefinition of road show
1
: a theatrical performance given by a troupe on tour
2
: a special engagement of a new motion picture usually at increased prices
3
: a promotional presentation or meeting conducted in a series of locations
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Fortunately, the road showed signs of collapsing before actually doing so, which allowed authorities to shut down the area. — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, "Watch this road collapse off a cliff in China after torrential rain," 2 July 2018 Photos of the road show a large crack through one of the lanes of traffic. — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, "Emergency repair of giant crack in roadway snarls traffic on eastbound U.S. 36 in Westminster," 12 July 2019 Gwar’s gloriously garish road show returns this fall with a packaged tour dubbed Use Your Collusion, featuring Sacred Reich, Toxic Holocaust and Against the Grain. — John Wenzel, The Know, "Avril Lavigne is coming to Denver and more Denver concerts on sale this week," 27 June 2019 And four work groups met last summer to study various components of the plan, before taking what would become House Bill 2020 on a road show to collect input from across the state. — Hillary Borrud | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive.com, "Oregon climate bill dead, top Senate Democrats say," 25 June 2019 The league had been looking for a venue that could accommodate its players and its fans for a road show that would become just the second event the league had ever held outside of New York. — Marco Santana, orlandosentinel.com, "Full Sail University at center of esports world during NBA2K tournament," 14 June 2019 The company holds a California road show, taking its instruments to shops like Menlo Park’s Bridgepoint Music, but didn’t have a West Coast outlet. — Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, "North Beach’s empty storefronts: Business owners tell their stories," 13 June 2019 Cars, bicycles, and other moving objects on the road showed as a different color than points that represented parked cars, trees, the road, and other stationary objects. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "Two self-driving startups team up to build a different kind of lidar," 28 May 2019 That rocket is now part of a road show and will eventually go to a museum. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "Blue Origin to subject its rocket to high-altitude escape test," 18 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'road show.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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