See Also: entertainment(medicine)
entertainment(dictionary)
M8 Entertainment(finance)
entertainment(dictionary)
Caesars Entertainment(finance)
MTM Entertainment Trust(finance)
Lucid Entertainment(finance)
Corus Entertainment(finance)
Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.(encyclopedia)
Meals and entertainment expense(money)

entertainment (iou)



entertainment noun. LME.
[formed as ENTERTAINER + -MENT.]
Maintenance; support. LME-M18.
b. sing. & in pl. Pay, wages. M16-E18.
Treatment (of people); manner of behaviour. M16-M17.
Occupation, occupying of time. Long rare. M16.
Hospitable provision for the wants of a guest. Now rare. M16.
G. P. R. James Take order that lodging and entertainment be prepared at York.
b. The action of receiving or providing for a guest. L16.
Law Times The proprietor..undertakes to provide for the entertainment of all comers.
c. A meal; esp. a formal or elegant meal, a banquet. Now rare. E17.
The action of keeping a person in, or of taking a person into, one's service; employment. L16-M17.
The action of receiving or accepting something, as information, a present, a proposal, etc. L16-E18.
Reception (of a person); manner of reception. L16-L17.
The action of occupying a person's attention agreeably; amusement. L16.
H. Cecil The general atmosphere of colour and light-heartedness provide a good afternoon's entertainment.
b. A thing which entertains or amuses someone, esp. a public performance or exhibition designed to entertain people. M17.
A. J. P. Taylor The cinema threatened humbler forms of entertainment.
Accommodation, esp. of a ship in a harbour. L17-E18.
The action of harbouring or cherishing in the mind a feeling, idea, etc. M19.
E. Miall The deliberate entertainment of this selfish design.
b. The consideration of an idea, proposal, etc. M19.