cume

[ kyoom ]

noun

Marketing.
- cumulative/accumulated audience: the number of people reached by an advertising or broadcasting medium over a specified period of time: The station has a weekly cume of 5.5 million.
- the cumulative gross earnings from a movie, album, etc.: the cume for the Star Wars franchise.
Informal. a student's grade point average.

Origin of cume

By shortening and alteration of cumulative or accumulated

Down goes the heavy lance; down goes the ponderous shield, suspended by a telamon: "Ohitarge grant cume peises al col!"
Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
Possibly he has dropped out before hedde idrunke, but A has e cume out guste.
Selections from Early Middle English 1130-1250: Part II: Notes | Various
Ase so here and in l. 144 appears to be an attempt to render si cume, A.
Selections from Early Middle English 1130-1250: Part II: Notes | Various
I mean not to cume away, as they say I will, for feare of a marriage and I know not what.
Great Ralegh | Hugh De Selincourt
Co si sunt deus leveres nurit en ma meisun, cume cisne sunt blauns (Horn, 613 f.).
The Master of Game | Second Duke of York, Edward

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