Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box for holding money or for receiving contributions of money.
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Examples
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I continued on as sturdy as an unbreakable money-box.
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He gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball.
Les Miserables 2008
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It did not even add anything to a man's wages; it only took away something from a man's wages and locked it up, whether he liked it or not, in a sort of money-box which was regarded as a medicine-chest.
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CIECO — a blind man — saying his prayers, and a VECCHIO PADRE — old friar-rattling a money-box.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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“He is worth two hundred thousand francs and more, without counting his money-box, and he has sold his son up, they say.”
Eve and David 2007
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“He is worth two hundred thousand francs and more, without counting his money-box, and he has sold his son up, they say.”
Eve and David 2007
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“Tom,” — if its treasurer had run away with the money-box, then I might have made a pathetic appeal to your feelings.
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Just without the city gate, on the Albara road, is a small house, with an altar in it, and a stationary money-box: also for the benefit of the souls in Purgatory.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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The woman who had just overthrown that iron-bound money-box, called Nucingen, had appeared to him as one of those who are unique in their generation.
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She fully understood the cause of the deference which all the Castlewood family showed to her — mother, and daughter, and sons, — and being a woman of great humour, played upon the dispositions of the various members of this family, amused herself with their greedinesses, their humiliations, their artless respect for her money-box, and clinging attachment to her purse.
The Virginians 2006
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