The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
2. singular noun [NOUN noun]
When people talk about thebox office, they are referring to the degree of success of a film or play in terms of the number of people who go to watch it or the amount of money it makes.
The film has taken £180 million at the box office.
The film was a huge box-office success.
box office in British English
noun
1.
an office at a theatre, cinema, etc, where tickets are sold
2.
the receipts from a play, film, etc
3.
a.
the public appeal of an actor or production
the musical was bad box office
b.
(as modifier)
a box-office success
box office in American English
1.
a place where admission tickets are sold, as in a theater
2. US, Informal
a.
the power of a show or performer to attract a paying audience
b.
a show, etc. considered with regard to this power
Examples of 'box office' in a sentence
box office
The film is in crisis, with bosses banning all screenings before its release over fears negative reviews will ruin its chances at the box office.
The Sun (2017)
At 1.23 billion, box office sales last year were the second highest on record.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
I decide that for myself, and hand over my money at the box office.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
She is the chair of the PAC and she is total box office.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
And it also entered the record books for the biggest opening weekend in UK box office history.
The Sun (2011)
The show had closed the previous year and had been panned by the critics, yet had made a lot of money at the box office.
Chris Gidney CELEBRATING SECOMBE: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe (2002)
The luvvies have always kept their distance from war - bad for box office and careers, darling.
The Sun (2009)
Each day of the run 30 tickets are available in person when the box office opens at 10.30am.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Business was booming over the holidays as healthy sales helped propel 1999's box office take to a new high.
Christianity Today (2000)
In other languages
box office
British English: box office /bɒks ˈɒfɪs/ NOUN
The box office in a theatre or cinema is the place where the tickets are sold.
...the long line of people outside the box office.
American English: box office
Arabic: شُبّاك التَذاكِر
Brazilian Portuguese: bilheteria
Chinese: 票房
Croatian: blagajna
Czech: pokladna divadelní
Danish: billetkontor
Dutch: bespreekbureau
European Spanish: taquilla cine
Finnish: lipunmyynti
French: guichet de réservations
German: Kasse
Greek: ταμείο θεάτρου ή κινηματογράφου
Italian: botteghino
Japanese: 切符売場
Korean: 매표소
Norwegian: billettkontor
Polish: kasa biletowa
European Portuguese: bilheteira
Romanian: casă de bilete
Russian: билетная касса
Latin American Spanish: taquilla despacho de billetes