cume
Americannoun
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Marketing.
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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.
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the cumulative gross earnings from a movie, album, etc..
the cume for the Star Wars franchise.
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Informal. a student's grade point average.
Etymology
Origin of cume
By shortening and alteration of cumulative or accumulated
Example Sentences
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Thanks to “Inside Out 2’s” $574.4 million domestic cume, Pixar now occupies the top four spots on the PG list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
Globally, director Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” passed Universal Pictures’ “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” as the highest grossing title of 2023 with a worldwide cume of $1.38 billion, per studio estimates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
It generated $13 million overseas, bringing its worldwide cume to $538 million.
From Reuters ● Aug. 26, 2018
Rounding out the top five was Paramount’s hit Christmas comedy, Daddy’s Home, which earned $9.3 million for the four days for a domestic total of $131.3 million and worldwide cume of $181.7 million.
From Time ● Jan. 18, 2016
Thease letteris war causit be spred abroade in great habundance, to the end that sum myght cume to the knawlege of men.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David
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