cashbox


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cashbox

(ˈkæʃˌbɒks)
n
(Commerce) commerce a strongbox for holding cash, esp in a business or financial institution
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Noun1.cashbox - a strongbox for holding cashcashbox - a strongbox for holding cash  
cash register, register - a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
deedbox, strongbox - a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked
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References in classic literature ?
His uncle was asleep on the sofa; on a small table at the head of the sofa a lamp was burning low, and by it stood the old man's small cashbox, closed.
The safe was not opened, the cashbox was closed, and had three thousand dollars in it.
You understand, it signifies nothing to me so long as you pay for your lessons out of your own cashbox. But to-day I find you are drawing on mine, and that your apprenticeship may cost me 700,000 francs per month.
I left the breakfast-table, and as I ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small brass box, like a cashbox, in the other.
He will have none of your money, possibly, he will refuse it because his conscience will not allow him to accept it, but he will go murdering you by night and walking off with your cashbox, with a clear conscience!
The two robbers threatened one of the security guards with a lump hammer as he took delivery of a cashbox from McDonald's restaurant in Aigburth Road at 10.35am.
He handed over the cashbox, but was shot in the leg with what police believed to be a handgun.
According to the police the security guard, who was carrying a cashbox, was just about to leave William Hill on Childwall Valley Road when he was approached by the two men, believed to be armed with a handgun and a hammer.
With the requirement of 400 million euro loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Government proved that it has a budgetary crisis, the cashbox is empty and this loan is the easiest form to fill up the budgetary hole.
Roza Isovska-Manevska criticizes the Government in Vreme on the intentions to fill up the state's cashbox with the citizens' money.
TWO "cavalier" armed robbers who snatched an empty cashbox from a Securicor man were yesterday jailed for a total of 20 years.
He found Mr Dewey's moneybox up stairs and used the key to his own cashbox at home to open it and helped himself.