verb
definition
To earn money, not including expenses.
example
The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
Examples of grossing in a Sentence
The film is the highest grossing box office comedy of all times.
Have fun with this extra special day where it is okay to have fun scaring people and grossing others out.
With her sparkling eyes, bubbly personality, and charming onscreen presence, Cameron Diaz has evolved from a low-budget star to one of the highest grossing women in Hollywood.
McGraw and Hill's country music tour, Soul2Soul II in 2006, became the highest grossing country music tour ever.
The film itself was successful, grossing over $60 million during its run.
They have recently released their first Greatest Hits album and continue to be one of the highest grossing touring acts in the world.
As such, the popular title went on to hold the record for the highest grossing opening day in video game history.
The highest grossing picture musical of its time was both a heartwarming and corny tale of two Army men who set off as a singing duo and ended up befriending two female singers along the way.
The trilogy is the highest grossing trilogy of all time, having earned nearly $3 billion in box office receipts -- more than Harry Potter or Star Wars.
This second installment did not fair so well, getting negative reviews and only grossing around $115 million, which is only $10 million over its estimated budget.
Though the movie has already become the highest grossing film of all time, surely there are some people out there who haven't seen it.
Avatar is one of the highest grossing films in the history of movies, even beating James Cameron's other blockbuster hit, Titanic, in earnings.
Avatar movie pics are a popular search engine topic, since the film is one of 2009's top grossing movies as well as a smash hit with audiences everywhere.
The film was very well received and ended up grossing $225,900,000 worldwide.
Because of all the controversy, The Dark Knight did very well, becoming the second highest grossing film of all time.
Because there's no heat involved your kids can be grossing each other out with this right away.
He is one of the top five award winners ever in country music, and his 2007 tour with his wife, country singer Faith Hill, broke the world record for biggest grossing music tour of all time.
It became the highest grossing independent film of 2008, even beating out Woody Allen's Vicky Christina Barcelona.
The year of its launch, Lilith Fair was the highest grossing music festival tour and the 16th highest grossing tour of any kind for the year.
To date, TPM is the highest grossing Star Wars movie, probably because of the pent-up demand occasioned by the lengthy wait.
Adding his Clancy character Jack Ryan to the mix, Harrison Ford has been in most of the highest grossing films of all time, and is reported the richest actor alive.
That makes it the fourth highest grossing film of 2005 in the USA, and it had the third largest opening week gross of all movies released in 2005.
All but one of the top ten grossing films of all time are "genre" films, so it's clear that science fiction, fantasy, horror and animation films have a future.
Another railway, part of the Cape to Cairo connexion, runs north-west from Bulawayo, Grossing the Zambezi just below the Victoria Falls.
Halo 2 was an even bigger hit, and set records for being the highest grossing release in entertainment history.
Born Tom Cruise Mapother IV in 1962, Cruise is one of the highest grossing action adventure stars of all time.