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grosser

grosser

1 7.3
A movie or product that earns a large total amount of money before costs are taken away
  • noun
  • /ˈɡroʊsər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : éxito de taquilla
  • Breaking Dawn opened better than New Moon, but New Moon remains the highest grosser of the saga despite inflation.
  • a box-office grosser
  • a top grosser
  • biggest grosser

Examples

  • The mobile app market is now so big that a game can become a $1 million grosser without ever hitting the top ten.

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  • He'd call me with grosses every week, but quickly.

  • How much harm can you do to the third biggest grosser in movie history.

  • "Iron Man 2" was the top box office grosser of the five, bringing in nearly $624 million globally in 2010.

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  • I'm gonna take QSKY and make it the first $5-million grosser on the West Coast.

  • But in the 1960s, our best decade for female-driven films, the highest grosser was Sound of Music with $158,671.

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  • The new film has opened in several countries already and earned more than $320 million, a pace that should eventually help it become the franchise's highest-grosser ever.

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  • Barbra Streisand's Yentl was one of the top grossers of the year, directed by and starring a woman.

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  • The movie was a major grosser, earning more than $500 million at the box office.

  • As a top grosser, the film exceeded all expectations in ticket sales this year.

Synonyms

earner
vsgrosser
65 2.0

A person who gets money from work

focuses on reaching a stated amount before costs are taken away

How Lucrative

blockbuster
81 2.6
grosser
  • Specialized
1 7.3
earner
65 2.0

Surface Forms

grosser singular
grossers plural

Morphology

grosser = gross (transparent) = gross + er

Agentive '-er' added to the verb 'to gross' yields 'one who grosses', a regular and productive formation.

Etymology

Grosser as a noun comes from the idea of gross as the 'total' amount of money a film or product makes. So a top grosser is the film or product that earns the largest total before costs.