Cume

adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Cumulative box office receipts.

    "With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens."

  2. 2
    Cumulative audience.

    "Compare cume to the number of shoppers that go into a supermarket. Let's imagine that the station has no listeners and the supermarket has no shoppers."

  3. 3
    Cumulative grade point average.

    "The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall, And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall."

Verb
  1. 1
    Earn cumulatively at the box office.

    "Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Cumulative. not-comparable

    "1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations..."

Example

More examples

"Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release."

Etymology

From cumulative; compare cumulate.

Related phrases

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