honesty box
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Megan Jackson, from Hetton-le-Hole, Sunderland, bakes and displays her own treats with an honesty box, which trusts customers to pay the correct amount of money while unattended.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
Not too far away at Ridley Court Farm, near Wrotham, there is a supersized honesty box - actually, a shed - and they too say customers are honest when paying for produce.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
"On the whole, most people are honest," she writes about the traditional honesty box.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
Even so, the traditional honesty box lives on in many areas.
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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