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What does box office mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word box office? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable, film, theater) A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema.
  2. (uncountable, by extension, film) the total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters.
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After throwing himself off buildings and wing walking in box office smashes, a stuntman has opened a martial arts school in Morecambe.
But it is more concerned with creating a box office dynamo than recreating a painstaking account of history.
Broaden or reanimate the repertoire, one argument runs, and you will broaden and reanimate the box office too.
Although her films have been critically acclaimed, they haven't been so successful at the box office.
Both are spending big bucks on the operation and both want a boffo box office.
Industry newspaper Variety estimates that around 65 per cent of total box office receipts for Hollywood films come from overseas.

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