collection box

American  

noun

1. a box or other container used to collect offerings of money, especially in a church.

2. mailbox.

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Example Sentences

The animals were captured using specially-designed traps filled with soft bedding and food, including oats, peanut butter, and Marmite -- which they find particularly delicious -- before being transferred to a footprint collection box.

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2026

In Scotland, where honesty boxes are commonly found, a golf course allowed people to pay for their round by dropping money into a collection box.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

Under Connecticut law, voters using a collection box must drop off their completed ballots themselves, or designate certain family members, police, local election officials or a caregiver to do it for them.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2023

But she found that a collection box that Amazon pressured the U.S.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2021

Why don’tcha drop a quarter in his collection box? 5TH JUROR: NOW wait a minute.

From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose