noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
box office receipts/takings etc (= the number of tickets sold or the money received )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bar
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But the real reason the bar takings .
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And if there are no bar takings then there will be no future performances.
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Everything was down, subscriptions and bar takings , caddie and green fees.
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Last season £18,000 in bar takings were found to be missing but no culprit was ever found.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A percentage of the takings is usually allocated to advertising: this is the advertising budget.
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Checking the takings late at night is no substitute for a proper budgetary control system.
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Dry manager Leroy Richardson was frogmarched to a safe containing the weekend's takings .
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In it they found and pocketed several thousand pounds, the takings of the bingo hall, then left.
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The takings from calls were less than £25,000.
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The profits grew and the bank manager began to smile at Carrie whenever she paid in the weekly takings .
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They front the firm and hand over half the takings to the police, otherwise they get visits from gun-toting goons.
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You were after the takings , weren't you?