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cume en · ADJ

Etymology

From cumulative; compare cumulate.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Cumulative.
   • Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station. 2016, Alan B. Albarran, Management of Electronic and Digital Media:
   • 1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...

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box office

cume en · NOUN

Etymology

From cumulative; compare cumulate.

Meanings

1. Cumulative box office receipts.
   • With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens. 2014 November 4, Justin Chang, “Why Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Demands a Wider 3D Release”, in Variety:
   • Taking into account the fact Wonder Woman opened lower than those other releases, these holds and its eventual $560-570+ million global cume after close of business Friday now all but assure Gal Gadot's Amazon princess will indeed finish its run north of $700 million. 2017, Mark Hughes, 'Wonder Woman' Has All-Time 4th-Best Third Weekend For Superhero Movie:
2. Cumulative audience.
   • Compare cume to the number of shoppers that go into a supermarket. Let's imagine that the station has no listeners and the supermarket has no shoppers. 2004, Steve Warren, Radio:
   • 2011, Gary Dahl, Advertising For Dummies If a particular station has a cume of 250,000, but most listeners are women and only a very few are within your target demo, then this 250,000 figure doesn't help you.
3. Cumulative grade point average.
   • The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall, And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall. 1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22:

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cume en · VERB

Etymology

From cumulative; compare cumulate.

Meanings

1. Earn cumulatively at the box office.
   • Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release. 2014, Brian Brooks, Deadline Hollywood, “Godard’s ‘Goodbye To Language’ Says Hello To Weekend’s Best Specialty Box Office”, November 2, 2014

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