Box-office

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of box office. alt-of, alternative, 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)."

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"The novel became a box-office success."

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