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box office definition

box office

  1. a place where admission tickets are sold, as in a theater
  2. ☆ Informal
    1. the power of a show or performer to attract a paying audience
    2. a show, etc. considered with regard to this power

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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