lockbox
Americannoun
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a strongbox.
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a rented post office box equipped with a lock.
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Also called lockout box. Television. a closed box, usually fitted with a lock, containing electronic equipment to unscramble cable television pictures for subscribers only: used especially to prevent children from watching programs with explicit sexual content.
Etymology
Origin of lockbox
Example Sentences
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Calvert kept the letters from her brother — which she still pulled out to read, just to feel close to him — in a lockbox in her closet.
From Los Angeles Times
If you stick with having your packages delivered and you won’t be home to receive them, there are an assortment of lockboxes and secure, oversized mail slots available, although they can be costly.
From Los Angeles Times
In addition, gun owners should have lockboxes and education surrounding safe gun ownership.
From Seattle Times
She kept her wages in cash in a lockbox under her bed because she was too young to open her own banking account.
From Los Angeles Times
Bass said two guns taken in the burglary were registered and stored in a lockbox.
From Los Angeles Times
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