four-wall
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.92 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to the rental of a cinema or theater for a fixed fee rather than a portion of the box office revenue.
Example Sentences
- "[…] since the typical four-wall arrangement allows the theater to keep all the money made on concessions."
- "When the theatre is a four-wall rental (i.e., the only thing the theatre provides in the rental agreement is the four walls), most lighting designers first carefully check the tech specs to see exactly what, if anything, may be useful or available for the show."
- "He did, however, successfully secure a four-wall distribution deal—a process by which a studio rents a movie theater for a period of time and receives all of the box office revenue—with Laemmle Theaters."