| 单词 | honesty box |
| 释义 | > as lemmashonesty box attributive. Chiefly British. With reference to a system in which a customer is trusted to pay for goods or services when a shop assistant, attendant, etc., is not present to take payment, usually by placing money in a receptacle provided for this purpose. Esp. in honesty box. ΚΠ 1936 Manch. Guardian 24 Aug. 4/6 ‘Honesty boxes’, into which tram and 'bus passengers can drop the fares which conductors have not had time to collect, have proved a big success in Glasgow. 1953 Times 21 Apr. 9/7 Such ‘honesty boxes’ would tend to detract from the present undivided responsibility of conductors to collect every fare. 1973 Irish Times 5 Apr. 5/3 An hotel..has established an ‘honesty bar’ for its guests... A price list is in the bar and guests help themselves. 1994 J. Wood Cycling in Lake District 38 Graythwaite Hall gardens are open daily from 10 o'clock. Payment is by an honesty box in the car park at the end of the winding driveway. 2011 D. Graney 1001 Austral. Nights 147 I strolled over to the shop with no person in it to buy a bag of nectarines. I left the money in the honesty tin. < as lemmas |
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