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boxoffice

boxoffice 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 boxoffice

pluralboxoffices

Questions about boxoffice

What is boxoffice the alternative form of?
Boxoffice is the alternative form of box office.

Words near boxoffice in the dictionary

  1. boxmakers
  2. boxmaking
  3. boxman
  4. boxmen
  5. Boxmoor
  6. boxoffice
  7. boxoffices
  8. boxologies
  9. boxology
  10. boxout
  11. boxouts

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