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money-box

money-box is the alternative form of money box.

Meaning of money box

Noun

money box (plural money boxes)

  1. A tin, often with a slot in the top, for depositing coins, used by children to save money.
    • “[…]We had an old lady come in with £2 worth of 5ps.” “She raided her money box,” said McCormack.2025 September 14, Daniel Boffey, quoting Shazza McCormack, “Racism or celebration? What England’s flag-hoisters are saying – and what others are hearing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of money-box

pluralmoney-boxes

Questions about money-box

What is money-box the alternative form of?
Money-box is the alternative form of money box.

Words near money-box in the dictionary

  1. money to burn
  2. money tree
  3. money trees
  4. money won is twice as sweet as money earned
  5. money's worth
  6. money-box
  7. money-boxes
  8. money-changer
  9. money-changers
  10. money-grabbing
  11. money-grubber

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Adapted from Wiktionary: money-box (page history and authors); money 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.

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