"play-actor" meaning in English

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      "form": "play-actors",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1892, The Arena - Volume 7, page 747:",
          "text": "Suppose Bacon wrote the plays, and that there is no cipher in them ; suppose he threw them from him as \" trifles \" ; used them to eke out his small income by dividing the profits with the play-actor, Shakespeare, and thought no more about them, and cared nothing for them; and suppose they were gathered up from the actor's hands, with all their imperfections on their heads, and so jumbled together and printed by Heminge and Condell.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Douglas Hill, Torment, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'Sadly, the play-actor is running and hiding like a rabbit,' the man went on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, J. S. Fletcher, Scarhaven Keep: Detective Stories Collections:",
          "text": "Mr. Greyle, mister, says that he has no recollection whatever of meeting this play-actor person in America—he may have done and he mayn't.",
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      "glosses": [
        "An actor who performs on stage, especially one who is part of an acting troupe."
      ],
      "id": "en-play-actor-en-noun--SUxTDxx",
      "links": [
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          "actor",
          "actor"
        ],
        [
          "stage",
          "stage"
        ],
        [
          "troupe",
          "troupe"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "play-act"
        },
        {
          "word": "play-acting"
        },
        {
          "word": "play-actress"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "playactor"
        }
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  "word": "play-actor"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "play-act"
    },
    {
      "word": "play-acting"
    },
    {
      "word": "play-actress"
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          "ref": "1892, The Arena - Volume 7, page 747:",
          "text": "Suppose Bacon wrote the plays, and that there is no cipher in them ; suppose he threw them from him as \" trifles \" ; used them to eke out his small income by dividing the profits with the play-actor, Shakespeare, and thought no more about them, and cared nothing for them; and suppose they were gathered up from the actor's hands, with all their imperfections on their heads, and so jumbled together and printed by Heminge and Condell.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Douglas Hill, Torment, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'Sadly, the play-actor is running and hiding like a rabbit,' the man went on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2015, J. S. Fletcher, Scarhaven Keep: Detective Stories Collections:",
          "text": "Mr. Greyle, mister, says that he has no recollection whatever of meeting this play-actor person in America—he may have done and he mayn't.",
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        "An actor who performs on stage, especially one who is part of an acting troupe."
      ],
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          "stage",
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    {
      "word": "playactor"
    }
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  "word": "play-actor"
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