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  • noun A strongly built room, or vault, where valuables may be stored in safety

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  • noun a burglarproof and fireproof room in which valuables are kept

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Examples

  • But they could have started last night, they had started last night for there had been no diving-boat in the Dubh Sgeir boathouse, and reports from the Nantesville's owners had indicated that the strongroom was a fairly antiquated one, not of hardened steel, that could be cut open in a couple of hours with the proper equipment.

    When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

  • Steeped in sweat - there are no mules or tramways here - they heave their heavy cargoes of ore into a small, dark strongroom before relaxing, cigarettes in hand, chatting and joking.

    The mining towns of San Luis Potosí, Mexico 2008

  • Steeped in sweat - there are no mules or tramways here - they heave their heavy cargoes of ore into a small, dark strongroom before relaxing, cigarettes in hand, chatting and joking.

    The mining towns of San Luis Potosí, Mexico 2008

  • Steeped in sweat - there are no mules or tramways here - they heave their heavy cargoes of ore into a small, dark strongroom before relaxing, cigarettes in hand, chatting and joking.

    The mining towns of San Luis Potosí, Mexico 2008

  • Steeped in sweat - there are no mules or tramways here - they heave their heavy cargoes of ore into a small, dark strongroom before relaxing, cigarettes in hand, chatting and joking.

    The mining towns of San Luis Potosí, Mexico 2008

  • By the time they reached the strongroom area almost half the delegates had arrived.

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • It was to be held in the antechamber to the casino's strongroom, which lay directly beneath the dais in the centre of the main gaming floor.

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • KwaZulu-Natal health spokesman Chris Maxxon said the raid had taken place and that the officers arrived with a key to the strongroom at

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Trevor Manuel then spoke of the effort in which our movement and government are engaged to transform the strongroom of dreams of those you never find mentioned in the history books, into a strongroom of dreams in the process of fulfilment.

    ANC Today 2006

  • Trevor Manuel then spoke of the effort in which our movement and government are engaged to transform the strongroom of dreams of those you never find mentioned in the history books, into a strongroom of dreams in the process of fulfilment.

    ANC Today 2006

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