roadshow
roadshow noun: a show that travels from place to place.
Noun
roadshow (plural roadshows)
- A show that travels from place to place.
- The showing of a film in selected cinemas prior to its general release.
- 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).2016 August 22, David Sims, “Why ‘Ben-Hur’ Was Hollywood's $100M Mistake”, in The Atlantic
- A series of meetings across different cities in which executives from a company have the opportunity to talk with current or potential investors.
- 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.2016 July 29, Gillian B. White, Bourree Lam, “‘Equity’: Finally, a Movie About Women Who Love Money”, in The Atlantic
Verb
roadshow (third-person singular simple present roadshows, present participle roadshowing, simple past roadshowed, past participle roadshown)
- To show in various places as part of a travelling excursion.
roadshow meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
roadshow in Hindi
- रोडशो, रोडशोइंग
roadshow in Tamil
- சாலைவலம்
roadshow in Marathi
- रोडशो
roadshow in Bengali
- রোডশো
More languagesFewer languages
- roadshow in Telugu
- రోడ్షో, రోడ్షోయింగ్
- roadshow in Malayalam
- റോഡ്ഷോ
- roadshow in Nepali
- रोडशो, रोडशोमा
- roadshow in Malay
- jerayawara
- roadshow in Vietnamese
- trình diễn sản phẩm
Forms of roadshow
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | roadshows |
| alternative form | road show |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | roadshows |
| present participle | roadshowing |
| past | roadshowed |
| past participle | roadshown |
Origin of roadshow
From road + show.
Questions about roadshow
- What does roadshow mean?
- Roadshow means a show that travels from place to place.
- What is roadshow in Hindi?
- Roadshow in Hindi is रोडशो, रोडशोइंग. See Roadshow meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is roadshow?
- Roadshow can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of roadshow?
- The plural of roadshow is roadshows.
Words near roadshow in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: roadshow (page history and authors); roadshow (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roadshow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roadshow (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roadshow (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roadshow (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roadshow (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roadshow (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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