cume

American  

[kyoom] / kjum /

noun

1. Marketing.

   1. 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.

   2. the cumulative gross earnings from a movie, album, etc..

      the cume for the Star Wars franchise.

2. Informal. a student's grade point average.

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Etymology

Origin of cume

By shortening and alteration of cumulative or accumulated

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Example Sentences

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cume

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

Combined with its $200 million launch in China, “Infinity War” earned $343.1 million worldwide this weekend, for a global cume of $1.6 billion.

From Reuters ● May 13, 2018

The Revenant also continued to prosper overseas, coming in No. 2 with $31.5 million from 25 markets for a $58.6 million foreign tally and $151.8 million worldwide cume.

From Time ● Jan. 18, 2016

Ic ham 70 ȝeue reste al swa þu ibeden hauest from non on saterdei a þa cume monedeis lihting. þ̵ efre forð to domes dei.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall

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