short subject

1. 1.

   a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature

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Questions about short subject

What does short subject mean?

short subject means "a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature".

Is short subject a common word?

short subject is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.