box office
1786, presumably from sales of boxes, box seats ("separated private seating").
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1786, presumably from sales of boxes, box seats ("separated private seating").
Folk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre, where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience.
Pronunciation Nounbox office
- (countable, film, theater) A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema.
- (uncountable, by extension, film) the total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters.
- (place where tickets are sold) ticket office, ticket window
- French: billetterie, guichet
- German: Schalter, Kasse
- Italian: biglietteria, botteghino
- Portuguese: bilheteria
- Russian: биле́тная ка́сса
- Spanish: taquilla
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