What does box-office mean?

box-office

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.88 in modern English

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Countable; Uncountable

"The modern director who turned Shakespeare into good box-office is Kenneth Branagh with his Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and, to a lesser extent, Hamlet (1996) and Love’s Labours Lost (2000)."

box-offices (plural)

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