box-office

box-office (countable and uncountable, plural box-offices)

1. Alternative form of box office.
   • 2007, Oliver Ford Davies, “Acting on Film”, in Performing Shakespeare, London: Nick Hern Books, →ISBN, part 4 (Rehearsal), pages 136–137:

     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).

Borrowed from English box office.

• IPA^(key): /bɔk.sɔ.fis/

box-office m (uncountable)

1. box office

Unadapted borrowing from English box office.

box-office n (uncountable)

1. box office