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What is the noun for entertaining?

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entertainment
  1. An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.
  2. A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
  3. (obsolete) Maintenance or support.
  4. (obsolete) Admission into service; service.
  5. (obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
  6. (obsolete) Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “The weekend will be a real family outing with lots of entertainment for everyone.”
      “Live entertainment will be available for the amusement of our guests.”
      “The more politics abases itself before the values of TV entertainment, the less it represents the real political process.”
entertainer
  1. A person who entertains others, esp. as a profession, as a singer, actor, presenter, dancer, musician, magician, comedian, etc.
  2. Someone who puts on a show for the entertainment or enjoyment of others.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “When he returned, 17 years later, he was a hugely successful entertainer with scores of hit records to his credit.”
      “Melissa saved up some money while working as an entertainer on a cruise ship.”
      “The entertainer sported a curled bob, a far cry from her usual flowy locks.”
entertain
  1. (obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.
  2. (obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.
entertoyment
  1. The phenomenon of popular entertainment (especially that which is intended for children) linked to the mass marketing of tie-in toys and products.
entertailing
  1. A commercially-designed experience intended to combine entertainment and retailing.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Begelman's strategy borrows from the trend toward entertailing, which combines retailing with entertainment.”
entertainability
  1. (idea) The quality of being entertainable.
entertainingness
  1. The quality of being entertaining.
entertaining
entertainments
  1. plural of entertainment
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The cold months ahead also promise a veritable buffet of supernatural entertainments.”
      “In the 16th century an element of drama was injected into these court entertainments.”
      “I explained that his novels would be in competition with the slick, fast-paced, thrill-a-minute entertainments of the American pulp fictioneers.”
entertainings
entertainers
  1. plural of entertainer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And by Jove, I always try to give young entertainers a break whenever I can!”
      “But far from being a washout, the fun continued with revellers and entertainers singing and dancing in the rain.”
      “She was a regular correspondent who was devoted to her favourite entertainers.”
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