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play-right

play-right is the alternative spelling of playright.

Meaning of playright

Noun

playright (countable and uncountable, plural playrights)

  1. (dated) The exclusive right to perform a dramatic work
    • Copyright in the specific sense is, however, of less importance to the dramatic author than playright or performing right[…]1912, Richard Rogers Bowker, Copyright, Its History and Its Uses, page 162

Forms of play-right

pluralplay-rights

Questions about play-right

What is play-right the alternative spelling of?
Play-right is the alternative spelling of playright.

Words near play-right in the dictionary

  1. play-off
  2. play-offs
  3. play-parties
  4. play-party
  5. play-play
  6. play-right
  7. play-rights
  8. play-room
  9. play-rooms
  10. play-through
  11. play-throughs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: play-right (page history and authors); playright (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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