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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Plutarch | When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | Why, 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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
strong box | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 cofre-forte (strongbox). (various references) caja de caudales (strongbox). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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