box-office failure

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• box office — box ,office noun count 1. ) the place in a theater where you buy tickets 2. ) used for referring to the number of tickets a movie, play, or performer has sold in order to show how successful they are: It took £20 million at the box office. a box… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Box office bomb — For the album by Dramarama, see Box Office Bomb (album). The phrase box office bomb (also referred to as a flop) refers to a film for which the production and marketing costs greatly exceeded the revenue regained by the movie studio.[citation… …   Wikipedia

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• box office — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms box office : singular box office plural box offices 1) theatre the place in a theatre where you buy tickets 2) theatre, cinema used for referring to the number of tickets a film, play, or performer has sold in… …   English dictionary

• ˈbox ˌoffice — noun [C] 1) the place in a theatre where you buy tickets 2) the number of people who buy tickets for a film or play a box office success/failure[/ex] The play was a huge success at the box office (= a lot of people went to see it).[/ex] …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• box — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a container, usu. with flat sides and of firm material such as wood or card, esp. for holding solids. 2 a the amount that will fill a box. b Brit. a gift of a kind formerly given to tradesmen etc. at Christmas. 3 a separate… …   Useful english dictionary

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• failure — n. 1) to experience failure 2) an abject, complete, dismal, hopeless, miserable, outright failure 3) a box office; crop failure 4) heart failure 5) a power failure 6) a failure to + int. (the patient s failure to respond to treatment was… …   Combinatory dictionary

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