house manager

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of house manager¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

The former house manager, Rinaldo Rizzo, said that in 2005, he found the teenager distraught and in tears in the Dubins’ kitchen.

From The Daily Beast

Now go down and call the house manager, he directed, and Ill telephone the police.

From Project Gutenberg

Then call the orders he has given, the Clearing House Manager's checks.

From Project Gutenberg

As the foreman said nothing, he asked bluntly: "How would you like the job as house manager?"

From Project Gutenberg

Upon the subject, however, of sales and orders, the house-manager was extremely reticent.

From Project Gutenberg

But the opera house manager kept those my friend and I turned in and said hed make an investigation.

From Project Gutenberg