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box office
1noun
- the office of a theater, stadium, or the like, at which tickets are sold.
- Theater.
- receipts from a play or other entertainment.
- entertainment popular enough to attract paying audiences and make a profit:
This show will be good box office.
box-office
2[ boks-aw-fis, -of-is ]
adjective
- of or relating to the box office or to the business and commercial aspects of the theater:
a box-office window; box-office receipts; a box-office attraction.
box office
noun
- an office at a theatre, cinema, etc, where tickets are sold
- the receipts from a play, film, etc
- the public appeal of an actor or production
the musical was bad box office
- ( as modifier )
a box-office success
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of box office2
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Example Sentences
In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.
How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.
But inspiration and faith-based agenda in movies does not guarantee box office success.
Draft Day, his Ivan Reitman-directed film about the NFL draft, grossed just $28 million at the domestic box office.
After that, the box office was up and it got played in more theaters.
Passed the box-office coming up, continued this voluble enlightener; nothing left but a few seats in the top gallery.
We ask your indulgence for the keen disappointment, and beg to say that your money will be refunded at the box-office.
Turiddu was presiding over the box-office and had considered my requirements.
If he is to be a real business man he'll not have anything to do with tickets bought directly at the box office.
He had to sue two Graeco-Roman wrestlers for board and attach their box-office receipts.
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