1. A system by which a permanent theater company presents a set of works during a season, usually in its own theater: A repertory is a group of actors and actresses who perform plays for just a few weeks at a time.
2. Etymology: from Latin repertorium, "inventory, list"; from repertus, reperire, "to find, to get, to invent"; from re-, "again" + parire, a form of paerere, "to produce, to bring forth".