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banker's box

banker's box noun: a file box: a cardboard box designed to hold paper files.

banker's box: a file box: a cardboard box designed to hold paper files
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Noun

banker's box (plural banker's boxes)

  1. A file box: a cardboard box designed to hold paper files.

Forms of banker's box

pluralbanker's boxes

Origin of banker's box

A genericized trademark from the Bankers Box brand name (which itself was probably proprialized from the nonproprietary collocation at a time when cardboard file boxes were still novel and not widely known outside of certain occupations such as banking and insurance).

Questions about banker's box

What does banker's box mean?
Banker's box means a file box: a cardboard box designed to hold paper files.
What part of speech is banker's box?
Banker's box is a noun.
What is the plural of banker's box?
The plural of banker's box is banker's boxes.

Words near banker's box in the dictionary

  1. banker lamps
  2. banker's acceptance
  3. banker's acceptances
  4. banker's bill
  5. banker's bills
  6. banker's box
  7. banker's boxes
  8. banker's clip
  9. banker's dozen
  10. banker's draft
  11. banker's drafts

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