|
|
Definition of Safe-deposit box
1. Noun. A fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables.
Generic synonyms: Deedbox, Strongbox
Definition of Safe-deposit box
1. Noun. A fireproof metal box, stored in a secure vault, for holding personal valuables ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Safe-deposit Box
Literary usage of Safe-deposit box
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Inheritance Taxation: With Practice and Forms by Lafayette Blanchard Gleason, Alexander Otis (1917)
"The Safe Deposit Box. a. COMPTROLLER MAY INSPECT. The statutes of all the states
where there are large cities require notice to the comptroller or tax ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1914)
"Prohibiting a safe deposit company from permitting the removal of the contents
of a safe deposit box after the death oí the renter, whether standing solely ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"You'll probably not need a safe-deposit box after the burglary. Better rent one
today. The long hunt for the will would have been avoided if it had been ..."
4. Financial Advertising: For Commercial and Savings Banks, Trust, Title by Elias St. Elmo Lewis (1908)
"... safe deposit box. Country bankers will tell you this is true. Farmers will
come in and rent a box, place their money and papers in it, come back again ..."
5. Pushing Your Business: A Textbook of Advertising; Giving Practical Advice on by Theodore Douglas MacGregor (1911)
"WITH A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX you need never worry about the security of your valuables.
... You can rent a safe deposit box in our impregnable, fire, burglar, ..."
Other Resources:
