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单词 money box
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money boxn.

Brit. /ˈmʌnɪ bɒks/, U.S. /ˈməni ˌbɑks/
Forms: see money n. and box n.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: money n., box n.2
Etymology: < money n. + box n.2
A box in which money is kept, esp. a closed box into which savings or contributions are dropped through a slot.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun]
boxc1300
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cash-chest1719
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1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 249 Capsella fictilis..a mony box made of potters clay, wherein boyes put their mony to keepe, such as they hang in shops, &c. towards Christmas.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 158 Could Catechize a Money-Box, And prove all Powches Orthodox.
1766 J. Woodforde Diary 14 Feb. (1924) I. 54 Papa gave me this afternoon my money box that Poor Mama kept for me from a Boy.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xviii. 172 The juggler's wife is active with the money-box in another quarter of the town.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table vii. 192 The brains also are shaken up [by riding] like coppers in a money-box.
1905 Athenæum 28 Jan. 118 The pirley-pig or circular money-box pertaining to the Town Council of Dundee. This pewter money-box is in the shape of an orange or flattened globe.
1998 E. Bignell Which? Way to save & Invest (ed. 10) iv. 54 If money boxes, record tokens or real china piggy banks help children to learn thrift, you might not be too concerned at the loss of a pound or two in interest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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