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  1. (context, theatre, _, jargon) No longer needing the script to rehearse.
After 5 days studying the script, Jane is now , and can concentrate on gesture more.
    • 1873, Thomas Wright, Our New Masters, Strahan & Co., page 125:
      "He will glibly parse a sentence ... and repeat the catechism and whole chapters of the Bible '.'"
    • 1993, Doug Moston, Coming to Terms with Acting, ISBN 0896761215, page 74:
      "In all likelihood, the director will leave you alone throughout the rest of the production and focus attention on the guy who isn't yet."
    • 2003, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, Picador, ISBN 0312422156, page 332:
      "'So if Antigone wants to be , I think the rest of you should be too.'"
      1. below the list price
    • 1963, Richard Austin Smith, Corporations in Crisis, Doubleday, page 74:
      "in the winter of 1957-58 prices were 60 percent ."
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