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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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In one instance, in December 2023, a North Hollywood business reported that it had sent three checks worth $84,490 to a collection box in Tarzana.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

Honesty boxes are traditionally found on rural roadsides, offering local produce in return for a few coins dropped into a cash collection box.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 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

A small girl, too young to be out past eleven, came out of a hallway and peered around a mail collection box.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

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