"bums in seats" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989 February 28, Rob Carrick, “Wardair Offer Urged Executives to Pay $18,000 for Year's Travel”, in Toronto Star (Canadian Press), page B8",
          "text": "Travel industry analyst Doug Galbraith of Runzheimer Canada speculated the airline came up with the card because it was simply \"in need of getting bums in seats.",
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          "ref": "2000 October 6, Daniel Girard, “Ottawa to Double Canadian Film Funding”, in Toronto Star, page F13",
          "text": "\"It's all about bums in seats,\" Copps said in a downtown Vancouver theatre.While Canadians' movie going is among the highest in the world, films made in Canada earned only 2.1 per cent or $13.8 million of box office receipts last year, the lowest among comparable filmmaking nations.",
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          "ref": "2007 October 26, “Meet the Pro-Wrestlers of Auckland”, in New Zealand Herald, retrieved 2010-08-31",
          "text": "Wrestlers and promoters began to realise opportunities for gimmicks with broad appeal which would be used to put bums in seats.",
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          "ref": "2010 April 27, “Former Liverpool and Leeds Star Robbie Fowler on the Move Again”, in Daily Mail, London, retrieved 2010-08-31",
          "text": "'He's a quality player and puts bums in seats.'",
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        "Spectators, passengers, or customers in attendance at a venue or other place where people assemble."
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        "(informal, chiefly Commonwealth) Spectators, passengers, or customers in attendance at a venue or other place where people assemble."
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          "word": "warm bodies"
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