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box-office

box-office is the alternative form of box office.

Meaning of box office

Noun

box office (countable and uncountable, plural box offices)

  1. (countable) A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema.
    • The movie tanked at the box office.
  2. (broadly, uncountable) The total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters.
    • box office receipts
  3. (uncountable) Quality of an entertainment or spectacle that makes it very popular with the public, or likely to be so.
    • His performance last night was pure box office.

Forms of box-office

pluralbox-offices

Phrases with box-office

Questions about box-office

What is box-office the alternative form of?
Box-office is the alternative form of box office.

Words near box-office in the dictionary

  1. box-elders
  2. box-fresh
  3. box-like
  4. Box-Muller transform
  5. box-of-tricks
  6. box-office
  7. box-office bomb
  8. box-office bombs
  9. box-offices
  10. box-sealing tape
  11. box-sealing tapes

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