stage business

1. 1.

   incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect

   “his business with the cane was hilarious”

   Synonymsbusinessbyplay

   Broaderacting

   Narrowershtik

Questions about stage business

What does stage business mean?

stage business means "incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect".

What is another word for stage business?

Close synonyms include business, byplay. 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 stage business a common word?

stage 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.