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• n  a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
  the audience applauded
  someone in the audience began to cough
• n  the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment
  every artist needs an audience
  the broadcast reached an audience of millions
• n  an opportunity to state your case and be heard
  he saw that he had lost his audience
• n  a conference (usually with someone important)
  he requested an audience with the king

• The idea for a show about a teen girl leading a double life as a pop star had the right fantasy quotient for the target audience.
• Body language says a lot about a world leader's audience with the Pope.
• I saw it at Cannes, where a quarter of the audience walked out and the rest gave it a standing ovation.

• hearing
• consultation
• interview

News & Articles

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• Peter Morgan has an 'Audience' with the queen
  The writer of the 2006 movie 'The Queen' is on London's West End with a play about Elizabeth II called 'The Audience.' He keeps it topical as it heads to a live broadcast. Peter Morgan answered his cellphone Friday but said right away that it wasn't a good time to talk. The Oscar-nominated writer of the 2006 movie "The Queen" explained in a polite but hurried manner that he was in a car en route ...
  June 12, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Psychic Bunny's Feature Film Cement Suitcase Wins Audience Award at 2013 Dances With Films Festival
  Cement Suitcase won the Audience Award in the Competition Features category at the 16th Dances With Films Festival. The award was accepted by writer/director J. Rick Castañeda and producers Doug Spice, ...
  June 11, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Xaxis Launches in Latin America, Bringing Data-Driven Audience Buying to Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Five Other ...
  Xaxis, the world's largest audience buying company, announced today the launch of operations in Latin America. Headquartered in Miami with a second office in Mexico City, Xaxis Latin America offers advertisers the first, fully featured audience buying solution for reaching the region’s more than 300 million connected consumers across Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela ...
  June 10, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• John McCain in USA Today
  It's hard to see what an Ahmadinejad meeting would gain, McCain said, "except an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another."
• Tom Stoppard in Times Online
  The Oscar-winning writer Sir Tom Stoppard said: "With his earliest work he stood alone in British theatre up against the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics, the audience and writers, too."
• Barack Obama in guardian.co.uk
  I had this speech tonight. I wanted to practice it out on you guys. See if it worked on a friendly audience,Obama joked.