Word.ws English Dictionary

thrift box

thrift box is the alternative form of thrift-box.

Meaning of thrift-box

Noun

thrift-box (plural thrift-boxes)

  1. (dated) A box or other receptacle in which savings are stored.
    • A Thrift-Box (as it is vulgarly called) is put up againſt the Wall, and every Cuſtomer puts in ſomething.1777, John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, page 164

Forms of thrift box

pluralthrift boxes

Questions about thrift box

What is thrift box the alternative form of?
Thrift box is the alternative form of thrift-box.

Words near thrift box in the dictionary

  1. thriddings
  2. thrids
  3. Thriess
  4. thrifallow
  5. thrift
  6. thrift box
  7. thrift boxes
  8. thrift shop
  9. thrift shopping
  10. thrift shops
  11. thrift store

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thrift box (page history and authors); thrift-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: “thrift box.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thrift_box. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.