cashbox

[ kash-boks ]

/ ˈkæʃˌbɒks /

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noun

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

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Origin of cashbox

First recorded in 1825–35; cash¹ + box¹

I remembered Miss Plinlimmon's account of the stolen cashbox.
Poison Island|Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
But she did not say anything then to Helen about the pearl necklace, and the cashbox of Queen Zelaya.
Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies|Alice B. Emerson
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.
Poison Island|Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
He became profligate, got drunk at alehouses, sold his master's property to get money, or stole it out of the cashbox.
Bunyan|James Anthony Froude

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.
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford|Mark Rutherford