Box office
Box office noun - The office where tickets of admission are sold.
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Returns and box office are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Returns" instead a noun phrase "Box office".
Returns
Box office and returns are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Box office" instead a noun "Returns".
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- Financially speaking neither was a failure, but the gross for Returns was less than hoped for by the studio and The Last Stand wound up making twice as much at the box office.
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Joe: Retaliation did well enough at the box office ($122.5 million domestically and over twice that overseas) to justify a third film; while waiting to see if she returns, she's transferred from the Joes to S.H.I.E.L.D.
Source: Hollywood Hype Machine - A newspaper headline in Superman Returns explicitly sets the movie in September 2006, a few months after it hit the box office.
Source: Next Sunday A.D.
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