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

Church officials say the thief stole money left by faithful in a collection box and opened, without damaging anything, a glass case that displays a tall statue depicting the saint.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2022

The union objection focused heavily on an on-site collection box that Amazon had repeatedly pushed the U.S.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2021

I hadn’t meant to play the tape, but since I was there all by myself, an impulse made me get the cassette out of my collection box and put it into the player.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro