cume

present singular third person cumes · participle present cuming · participle past cumed · past cumed

1. broadcastingEarn 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

plural cumes

1. broadcastingCumulative 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

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   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. broadcastingCumulative audience.

   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.

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   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

3. educationCumulative 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

1. not comparablebroadcastingCumulative.

   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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   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