honesty box

noun

1. a container into which members of the public are trusted to place payments when there is no attendant to collect them

Example Sentences

"The honesty box means we can be part of my community - bringing something to them, rather than the business being solely online," says the affable Annabelle.

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Despite plans to scale back the bakery next year, to spend more time with her young son, the honesty box will remain.

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In her notes, she says she loves an honesty box "not just for the delight of the home grown and the childish excitement and memories of playing shop but the discovery of the simple, unpretentious, local and handmade in a world saturated with high tech, fake news and globalisation".

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But she says QR codes change the dynamics of an honesty box, and the sense of trust.

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On the side of an A-road between Canterbury and the north Kent coast is a small but colourful honesty box.

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