cume

verb

Etymology

From cumulative; compare cumulate.

Definitions

  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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
    • 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.
  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. 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.
    2. Cumulative.

      • 1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...
      • Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cume. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA