house manager

American  

noun

1. a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.

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Etymology

Origin of house manager

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

She had been sober for only six months when she was hired as a house manager, overseeing some of the same residents she had gone through the program with.

From Salon

On the day the boulder hit his car, Jan. 9, Henao said he had finished his workday as a house manager for a rehab center and gone grocery shopping at Vons.

From Washington Post

Ms. Persichitte did not go to college and works as a house manager for a family nearby.

From New York Times

Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died in September after he was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor at a friend’s house, manager Jarez Posey told TMZ.

From Los Angeles Times

In addition to “The Whale,” Chau can be seen in two other films this fall, as a Portland artist in Kelly Reichardt’s “Showing Up,” and as the house manager of a satirically haute island restaurant in “The Menu.”

From Los Angeles Times