honesty box
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Even so, the traditional honesty box lives on in many areas.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
Despite plans to scale back the bakery next year, to spend more time with her young son, the honesty box will remain.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
On the side of an A-road between Canterbury and the north Kent coast is a small but colourful honesty box.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
"On the whole, most people are honest," she writes about the traditional honesty box.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
Radiohead put out In Rainbows as a digital download in 2007 employing an "honesty box" scheme.
From The Guardian • Dec. 25, 2010
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