box office

1. 1.

   total admission receipts for an entertainment

   Broadergross
2. 2.

   the office where tickets of admission are sold

   Synonymsticket officeticket booth

   Broaderoffice

   Part oftheater

Questions about box office

What does box office mean?

box office means "total admission receipts for an entertainment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for box office?

Close synonyms include ticket office, ticket booth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is box office a common word?

box office is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.