audition
/ɔˈdɪʃ·ən/ n [C]Definition
› a short performance given by an actor, dancer, musician, or other performer that tests whether that person's skills are suitable for a particular event or group: The boys’ choir held rigorous auditions before each new member was admitted.
(Definition of audition n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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