roadshow

English

Alternative forms

• road show

Etymology

From road +‎ show.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

roadshow (plural roadshows)

1. A show that travels from place to place.
2. (film) The showing of a film in selected cinemas prior to its general release.
   • 2016 August 22, David Sims, “Why ‘Ben-Hur’ Was Hollywood's $100M Mistake”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     In 2004, Gibson’s roadshow tour for The Passion of the Christ saw him visiting church groups and giving impassioned speeches about the film (which Hollywood studios refused to fund or distribute).

3. (business) A series of meetings across different cities in which executives from a company have the opportunity to talk with current or potential investors.
   • 2016 July 29, Gillian B. White, Bourree Lam, “‘Equity’: Finally, a Movie About Women Who Love Money”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     I thought Equity had a pretty quick and easy way of illustrating what happens when a company decides to go public: from the pitch, to the due diligence, to the pricing, to the roadshow.

Translations

travelling show

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 路演 (zh) (lùyǎn)

• Finnish: kiertue (fi)
• Japanese: ロードショー (rōdoshō)
• Korean: 로드쇼 (rodeusyo)
• Malay: jerayawara (ms)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: trình diễn sản phẩm

Verb

roadshow (third-person singular simple present roadshows, present participle roadshowing, simple past roadshowed, past participle roadshown)

1. (transitive) To show in various places as part of a travelling excursion.

Anagrams

• Harwoods