- a variation of safe-deposit box.
safety-deposit box
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of safety-deposit box
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Also, I happen to have in my safety-deposit box a list of people I know who wore Nehru jackets in the ’70s.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2012
It is about the size of a small safety-deposit box – and those, ever since the financial crisis hit 18 months ago, have become the most sought-after financial products in the country.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2011
But daddy Kingsgrant, a Yankee lawyer with a Park Avenue penthouse and a mind like a safety-deposit box, is not so easily hurdled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several years ago, worried about leaving the diaries behind as she globe-hopped from one job to the next, she locked them in a safety-deposit box in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every meaningful detail about his real life remained hidden away, like the contents of a safety-deposit box that even he had lost the key to.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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