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

Another China-bound ship, the Cume, is owned by a Dubai entity sanctioned by the U.S. and is flying a fake Guyana flag, according to European Union database Equasis.

From The Wall Street Journal

The owners of the Skywave and the Cume didn’t respond to requests for comment.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

That includes a modest $6.7 million weekend in North America, where the cume has hit $29.5 million, across 2,910 locations for a per-screen average of $2,302.

From Los Angeles Times