show business

1. 1.

   those involved in providing entertainment: radio and television and films and theater

   Synonymsentertainment industryshow biz

   Broaderindustry

   Partsfilm industry

Questions about show business

What does show business mean?

show business means "those involved in providing entertainment: radio and television and films and theater".

What is another word for show business?

Close synonyms include entertainment industry, show biz. 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 show business a common word?

show business 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.