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A box office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket. By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a synonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives.〔(Answers.com )〕 ''Box office'' business can be measured in terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is very important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry. ==Etymology== The term is attested since 1786,〔(box office ) in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001〕 presumably from sales of boxes (private seating areas in a theatre).〔William and Mary Morris, ''Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins'', HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988〕〔Robert Hendrickson, ''Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins,'' Facts on File, New York, 1997〕 The sense of "total sales" is attested from 1904.〔 A folk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre (i.e. late 16th century), where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience;〔〔 compare the "bottle" in Punch and Judy, where money was collected in a bottle. However, first attestation is about 200 years later, making this highly unlikely. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Box office」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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