box-office

Language: en

🇬🇧 /'bɒks'ɒfɪs/ 🇺🇸 /ˈbɑksˌɔfɪs/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    A place in a theater, cinema, or other venue where tickets are sold to the public.; The total amount of money received from ticket sales for a particular film, play, or event; the commercial success of a production.
  2. adjective
    Relating to or characteristic of commercial success in terms of ticket sales; attracting large audiences.; Having the power to attract large audiences and generate significant ticket revenue.
  3. noun
    The office or department in a theater or venue responsible for selling tickets and managing reservations.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: box offices, box-offices

Collocations

box-office hitbox-office successbox-office failurebox-office receiptsbox-office drawat the box officebox-office numbers

Synonyms

ticket officeticket windowticket booth

Commonly confused

box office
EN: 'Box office' (open compound) is the standard noun form; 'box-office' (hyphenated) is used as an attributive adjective before a noun (e.g., 'box-office hit').

Spelling tips

EN: Use 'box office' (no hyphen) as a noun and 'box-office' (hyphenated) as a compound adjective before a noun. Both forms are sometimes seen interchangeably in informal usage.

💬 Examples

  1. We picked up our tickets at the box-office before the show started.

  2. The movie earned over $200 million at the box-office in its opening weekend.

  3. The director has a string of box-office hits to his name.

  4. She is one of the most box-office stars in Hollywood.

  5. She called the box-office to inquire about group discounts.