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box offices

box offices is the plural 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.

Questions about box offices

What is box offices the plural of?
Box offices is the plural of box office.

Words near box offices in the dictionary

  1. box of fluffy ducks
  2. box of ivories
  3. box of tricks
  4. box off
  5. box office
  6. box offices
  7. box oneself into a corner
  8. box operator
  9. box operators
  10. box out
  11. box party

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