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mite boxes

mite boxes is the plural of mite box.

Meaning of mite box

Noun

mite box (plural mite boxes)

  1. A box, especially in a church, into which small charitable donations for the needy may be placed; (now commonly) any of a number of cardboard boxes distributed for individual donations.
    • Even if there had been time for mite boxes they were not such a good idea after all, she corrected herself.[…]It was not a neat and tidy mite box the way Beulah Ball's was; it was a dirty, torn, loose mite box, and so was Jerry's.1951, Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye, published 2004, page 20
    Synonyms:
    alms box, poor box

Questions about mite boxes

What is mite boxes the plural of?
Mite boxes is the plural of mite box.

Words near mite boxes in the dictionary

  1. Mitchum
  2. Mitchumesque
  3. Mitchums
  4. mite
  5. mite box
  6. mite boxes
  7. mite cheese
  8. Miteipur
  9. Mitempfindung
  10. miteproof
  11. miter

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