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Safety-deposit   /sˈeɪfti-dəpˈɑzɪt/   Listen
Safety-deposit

noun
1.
A fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables.  Synonyms: deposit box, lockbox, safe-deposit, safe-deposit box, safety deposit box.






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"Safety-deposit" Quotes from Famous Books



... suggestion of a financial panic money began to disappear. Nothing is so cowardly in its cautiousness as money. Scholarship comes next to it. The savings of years have the tightest grip on most human hands. As though by magic, money began hunting dark holes in stockings and cellars and safety-deposit boxes. And the hard grip of the panic was quickly felt everywhere. It was a fear panic. A terrible danger ...
— Quiet Talks with World Winners • S. D. Gordon

... carefully as every breeding of a thoroughbred horse or dog. Also the date the basket is finished. It is then numbered and photographed and either offered for sale at a certain price, which is never changed, or is put in the safety-deposit vault of the bank, to await the time when such aboriginal masterpieces will be eagerly sought after by the growingly intelligent and appreciative of our citizens, for their museums or collections, as specimens of work of a ...
— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James



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