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STRONG BOX

Specialty Definition: STRONG BOX

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

Strong steel container fitted with a very secure lock and often with air-tight doors and double walls. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: STRONG BOX

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Treasury

Noun: treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper; cash register, kutcherry, bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest;(receptacle); safe; bank vault; depository; till, tiller; purse; money bag, money box; porte-monnaie.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Familiar Quotations: STRONG BOX

AuthorQuotation

Plutarch

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Speeches: STRONG BOX

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ulysses S. Grant

1869-1877Why, it looks as though Providence had bestowed upon us a strong box in the precious metals locked up in the sterile mountains of the far West, and which we are now forging the key to unlock, to meet the very contingency that is now upon us.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STRONG BOX

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

strong box

14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: STRONG BOX

Language Translations for "STRONG BOX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

pengeskab (safe), box (safe). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

brandkast (strong-box). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kassakaappi (safe). (various references)

   

French

  

coffre-fort (strongbox). (various references)

   

German

  

Panzerschrank (safe). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χρηματοκιβώτιο (coffer, safe). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pénzszekrény (cash box, coffer), páncélszekrény (safe, safe-deposit). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cassaforte (safe, strongbox). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kishtey lajer. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ongstray oxbay

   

Portuguese

  

cofre-forte (strongbox). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

caja de caudales (strongbox). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STRONG BOX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: strongbox.

Words within the letters "b-g-n-o-o-r-s-t-x"

-2 letters: trogons.

-3 letters: bongos, borons, boston, robots, strong, trogon.

-4 letters: bongo, bongs, boons, boors, boost, boots, boron, borts, boson, broos, gobos, goons, grots, robot, roost, roots, rotos, snoot, snort, sorgo, tongs, toons, toros, torso.

-5 letters: bogs, bong, boon, boor, boos, boot, born, bort, bots, broo, bros, gobo, gobs, goon, goos, grot, nobs, nogs, onto, oots.

 Words containing the letters "b-g-n-o-o-r-s-t-x"
 

+2 letters: strongboxes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Familiar
2. Quotations: Speeches
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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