cashbox

[ kash-boks ]

noun

1. a box or container for money, especially with compartments for coins and bills of different denominations.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cashbox¹

First recorded in 1825–35; cash ¹ + box ¹

Example Sentences

I remembered Miss Plinlimmon's account of the stolen cashbox.

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But she did not say anything then to Helen about the pearl necklace, and the cashbox of Queen Zelaya.

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There in the summer-house he found the Major, who meanwhile had fetched his cashbox from the house and locked the chart up in it.

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He became profligate, got drunk at alehouses, sold his master's property to get money, or stole it out of the cashbox.

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I put on my cloak, took some money which was my own out of my cashbox, and at half-past twelve heard the mail-coach approaching.

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