honesty box

English

Noun

honesty box (plural honesty boxes)

1. An unattended box for cash payments (for e.g. car parking or home-grown produce), relying on the honor system.

   Synonym: honor box

   • 2020 April 18, Fiona Harvey, “Meat and veg vending machines do roaring trade in coronavirus crisis”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-17:

     He was inspired by his grandfather who, in the late 1970s, used to leave a wheelbarrow at the gates of the family farm filled with turnips and cabbages, and an honesty box for people to pay.

Related terms

• honesty jar

 

References

• “honesty box”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Further reading

• honesty box on Wikipedia.Wikipedia