cume

American  

[kyoom] / kyum /

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

Example Sentences

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

That brings its North American total to $77.7 million and worldwide cume to $112 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

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 Hall, Joseph