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cume

cume verb: earn cumulatively at the box office.

Verb

cume (third-person singular simple present cumes, present participle cuming, simple past and past participle cumed)

  1. Earn cumulatively at the box office.
    • Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release.2014, Brian Brooks, Deadline Hollywood, “Godard’s ‘Goodbye To Language’ Says Hello To Weekend’s Best Specialty Box Office”, November 2, 2014

Noun

cume (plural cumes)

  1. Cumulative box office receipts.
    • With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens.2014 November 4, Justin Chang, “Why Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Demands a Wider 3D Release”, in Variety
    • Taking into account the fact Wonder Woman opened lower than those other releases, these holds and its eventual $560-570+ million global cume after close of business Friday now all but assure Gal Gadot's Amazon princess will indeed finish its run north of $700 million.2017, Mark Hughes, 'Wonder Woman' Has All-Time 4th-Best Third Weekend For Superhero Movie
  2. Cumulative audience.
    • Compare cume to the number of shoppers that go into a supermarket. Let's imagine that the station has no listeners and the supermarket has no shoppers.2004, Steve Warren, Radio
    • If a particular station has a cume of 250,000, but most listeners are women and only a very few are within your target demo, then this 250,000 figure doesn't help you.2011, Gary Dahl, Advertising For Dummies
  3. Cumulative grade point average.
    • The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall,
      And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall.1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22

Adjective

cume (not comparable)

  1. Cumulative.
    • Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable
    • Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station.2016, Alan B. Albarran, Management of Electronic and Digital Media

Forms of cume

Verb
third-person singular presentcumes
present participlecuming
past participlecumed
pastcumed
Noun
pluralcumes

Origin of cume

From cumulative; compare cumulate.

Questions about cume

What does cume mean?
Cume means earn cumulatively at the box office.
What part of speech is cume?
Cume can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
What is the past tense of cume?
The past tense of cume is cumed.

Words near cume in the dictionary

  1. cumdrunk
  2. cumdump
  3. cumdumps
  4. cumdumpster
  5. cumdumpsters
  6. cume
  7. cumec
  8. cumecs
  9. cumed
  10. cumene
  11. cumene process

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