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four-wall

four-wall adjective: relating to the rental of a cinema or theater for a fixed fee rather than a portion of the box office revenue.

Adjective

four-wall (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the rental of a cinema or theater for a fixed fee rather than a portion of the box office revenue.
    • […] since the typical four-wall arrangement allows the theater to keep all the money made on concessions.2012, Thomas A. Crowell, The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers, page 311
    • When the theatre is a four-wall rental (i.e., the only thing the theatre provides in the rental agreement is the four walls), most lighting designers first carefully check the tech specs to see exactly what, if anything, may be useful or available for the show.2013, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, page 157

Questions about four-wall

What does four-wall mean?
Four-wall means relating to the rental of a cinema or theater for a fixed fee rather than a portion of the box office revenue.
What part of speech is four-wall?
Four-wall is an adjective.

Words near four-wall in the dictionary

  1. four-twenty
  2. four-vector
  3. four-vectors
  4. four-velocities
  5. four-velocity
  6. four-wall
  7. four-waller
  8. four-wallers
  9. four-walling
  10. four-way
  11. four-way cock

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