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

It has prompted an appeal for non-perishable food donations, with a collection box has been placed at Penn Hospital.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 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

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

Not least is a so-called collection box that Amazon lobbied the U.S.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2022

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