cashbox
noun
cashbox is a noun meaning “A box for holding cash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-S-H-B-O-X, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cashbox is cashboxes.
What does cashbox mean?
noun
- 1
A box for holding cash.
- 2
slangA toll booth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cashbox?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-cashbox.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cashbox
- cashboxes plural
- cash box
- cash-box
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cashbox?
Cashbox appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cashbox in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a box for holding cash:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | alcancía |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cashbox come from?
From cash + box.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).