Word.ws English Dictionary

honesty boxes

honesty boxes is the plural of honesty box.

Meaning of honesty box

Noun

honesty box (plural honesty boxes)

  1. An unattended box for cash payments (for e.g. car parking or home-grown produce), relying on the honor system.
    • He was inspired by his grandfather who, in the late 1970s, used to leave a wheelbarrow at the gates of the family farm filled with turnips and cabbages, and an honesty box for people to pay.2020 April 18, Fiona Harvey, “Meat and veg vending machines do roaring trade in coronavirus crisis”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...
    Synonyms:
    honor box

Questions about honesty boxes

What is honesty boxes the plural of?
Honesty boxes is the plural of honesty box.

Words near honesty boxes in the dictionary

  1. honests
  2. honesty
  3. honesty bar
  4. honesty bars
  5. honesty box
  6. honesty boxes
  7. honesty is the best policy
  8. honesty jar
  9. honesty jars
  10. honewort
  11. honeworts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: honesty boxes (page history and authors); honesty box (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “honesty boxes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/honesty_boxes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.