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honesty box

British

noun

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

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"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.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

"On the whole, most people are honest," she writes about the traditional honesty box.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

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

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

Now, she opens the honesty box every day at 9am until locking it back up at 8pm.

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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