dry run

1. 1.

   a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)

   “he missed too many rehearsals”

   “a rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding”

   Synonymsrehearsal

   Broaderexercise

   Narrowerdress rehearsalrun-throughwalk-through

   concert

Questions about dry run

What does dry run mean?

dry run means "a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)".

What is another word for dry run?

Close synonyms include rehearsal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dry run a common word?

dry run is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.