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box office

noun
 
 

Definition

[C] the place in a theatre or cinema where tickets are sold: The box office opens at ten.Theatre auditorium and front-of-house [S or U] a measure of how popular and financially successful a film or actor is: Her last film was a surprise box-office hit.Cinema - general words
(Definition of box office noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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