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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
repertoire
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
behavioural
▪ The elements of behavioural repertoires are resources actively mustered by self-directing organisms.
▪ It has, therefore, through natural selection, become part of the behavioural repertoire of the house martins.
▪ Unlike hydra, they have clearly defined head and tail ends, and a much more elaborate behavioural repertoire.
▪ In addition, the neuronal representation and control of complex innate behavioural repertoires of strategic importance is based here.
▪ Yet despite this capacity to learn, the behavioural repertoire of chimpanzees is rudimentary and limited compared to people.
wide
▪ The staphylococcus family boasts a wide repertoire of plasmids, too.
▪ Today the ensemble are well established and perform a wide and varied repertoire ranging from renaissance to contemporary music.
▪ The singers entertained members with a wide repertoire, both modern and old, and they were warmly thanked by Elizabeth Lawrence.
■ VERB
add
▪ Some of our cathedrals regularly add to their repertoire in this way.
▪ The next instrument she hopes to add to her repertoire?
▪ You can go on learning and adding to your repertoire of behaviours for as long as there is breath in your body.
▪ As evolution progresses, more and more features of resemblance are added to the repertoire of the insects.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kate shouldn't have any problem finding a job with her repertoire of skills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
▪ Ackroyd's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers - a repertoire of others.
▪ Books like these contain much music which is transitory but include insufficient hymnody from the traditional repertoire.
▪ His interests were playing and teaching the great works of the standard repertoire.
▪ Some of them modify mental as well as bodily functions and have effects beyond the repertoire of conventional laboratory experiments in pharmacology.
▪ Some writing is of undoubtedly high quality and may well find a place in the permanent repertoire of a wider public.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
repertoire

"a stock of plays, songs, etc., which a performer or company has studied and is ready to perform," 1847, from French répertoire, literally "index, list" (14c.), from Late Latin repertorium "inventory" (see repertory).

Wiktionary
repertoire

n. 1 A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform or display. 2 A set of skills possessed by a person. A collection of items.

WordNet
repertoire
  1. n. the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation; "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters" [syn: repertory]

  2. a collection of works that an artist or company can perform

Wikipedia
Repertoire
''Also see: Repertory theater or Repertoire (disambiguation).

A repertoire is a list or set of dramas, operas, musical compositions or roles which a company or person is prepared to perform.

"Repertoire - Definition and More",
Free Merriam-Webster, 2012, web:
MW.

Musicians often have a musical repertoire. The first known use of the word "repertoire" was in 1847. It is a loan word from the French language, as "répertoire", with a similar meaning in the arts. The origin of the word is from the Late Latin word "repertorium".

The concept of a basic repertoire has been extended to refer to groups which focus mainly on performing standard works, as in repertory theater or repertoire ballet.

"American Ballet Theatre - Repertory Archive",
ABT.org, 2010, webpage:
ABT.

Repertoire (disambiguation)

Repertoire may refer to:

  • Repertoire, a list or set of works ready to perform
  • Musical repertoire, a set of prepared musical compositions
  • Repertoire Records, a German record label specialising in 1960s and 1970s pop and rock reissues
  • in computing, the full set of abstract characters that a particular character encoding can support
  • Le Répertoire de la Cuisine, commonly called Le Répertoire, a culinary reference book by Louis Saulnier
  • in chess, a player's opening repertoire is a collection of their favoured opening systems
See also
  • REPAIRtoire
  • Repertory theater, a system of theatrical production and performance scheduling

Usage examples of "repertoire".

Hammond harmonica, brought with him from Earth, their instruments were hand-made by Paul Dwyer, the bassist, and their repertoire mainly consists of twentieth century blues and country standards.

Instead of the radio merengues, Gladys now sang an endless repertoire of Christmas carols: Glo-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhOh-oh-oh-oh-ohhRia!

Having exhausted the repertoire of the hullabaloo, he initiated the turbaned warriors into the mystery of unwinding tunes, thereby cementing the friendship forever.

Most virtuosi gave a lot of solo concerts, leaning heavily on the ancient piano repertoire interlarded with one-man assaults on orchestral favorites.

Izawa to synthesize traditional and Western music, the most important result of musical training in public schools from his time on was to accustom successive generations of Japanese students to Western harmonies and modes, and thus to make possible Japanization of the classical repertoire of Western symphonic and chamber music.

She ran through her entire repertoire and still Piers entreated her for more.

Out on the left, Job gave the penny-whistle snort of a reedbuck, one of the most urgent alarm calls in their repertoire.

It was flashing its lights and parping its horn and generally making with all the swearwords and V-signs in the motoring repertoire.

Gale and Welchman instrument because they like the repertoire so much.

Along with sweet dimples, indignant dimples, and enthusiastic dimples, it seemed possible that Pippa had among her repertoire a few larcenous ones.

Staying too long on the mound was Russian roulette for short-relief men with limited repertoires, as Elmer Disquette well knew.

Back activated savoir faire subroutines he had not needed since he escorted Ayradyss and John on their long-ago honeymoon, surprising Jay with his repertoire of courtly compliments that stayed precisely on the correct side of mannerly.

That is, as strings twist and vibrate while meandering through the extended and curled-up dimensions, a small subset of their vast oscillatory repertoire consists of vibrations with spin equal to 1 or 2.

The band used up its repertoire, and was beginning again on Anchors Aweigh, when all the cohorts of Johnson, John Jay, and Furnald reached their places.

With a few brandies down me I could probably handle him with my brief but nasty repertoire of sudden street stunts.