box office

Definitions

1. A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema.
   countable
2. The total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters.
   broadly, uncountable
3. Quality of an entertainment or spectacle that makes it very popular with the public, or likely to be so.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“If any further insurance was required, the popularity of the three "Topper" films in the 1930s — based on Thorne Smith's characters — would seem to indicate⟳ that amusing ghosts made good box office.”

“His performance last⟳ night was pure box office.”

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