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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(theater) Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action..
[...] there had been some amusing byplay with the enginemen as to what might be expected to happen if the engines failed to behave themselves properly.
The father-son byplay is occasionally overdone and tedious, but there is a genuine warmth in both the Oland-Luke and the Toler-Sen Yung teamings.
Use byplay when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Byplay means (theater) Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action..
Common synonyms include business, stage business.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[...] there had been some amusing byplay with the enginemen as to what might be expected to happen if the engines failed to behave themselves properly.
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