Usually means: Revenue generated from ticket sales.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word box office:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. box office: Merriam-Webster
  2. box office: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. box office: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. box office: Collins English Dictionary
  5. box office: Vocabulary.com
  6. Box-Office, Box-office, box-office: Wordnik
  7. box office: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. box-office, box office: Wiktionary
  9. box office: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. box office: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. box-office, box office: Dictionary.com
  12. Box Office (album), Box-office, Box office: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. box office: Rhymezone
  14. box office, box office: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. box office: FreeDictionary.org
  16. box office: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. box-office, box office: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. box office: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. box office: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (box office)

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

Similar:
ticket booth, ticket office, box-office, booking office, cinema, movie theater, ticket window, theater, paybox, wicket, more...

Types:
blockbuster, flop, hit, more...

Phrases:
home box office, Lists of box office number-one films, Box Office Mojo, Box Office India, Pinoy Box Office, more...

Adjectives:
quad, drive-in, number one, cinemagoing, broadway, moviegoing, mazarine, kino, ground, scenic, backing



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Similar:
ticket booth, ticket office, box-office, booking office, cinema, movie theater, ticket window, theater, paybox, wicket, more...

Types:
blockbuster, flop, hit, more...

Phrases:
home box office, Lists of box office number-one films, Box Office Mojo, Box Office India, Pinoy Box Office, Mr. Box Office, Box office territory, BT Sport Box Office, box office earnings, box office busts, more...

Adjectives:
quad, drive-in, number one, cinemagoing, broadway, moviegoing, mazarine, kino, ground, scenic, backing



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