as in vault
a specially reinforced container to keep valuables safe keeps her jewelry in a strongbox

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Recent Examples of strongbox Buffs have been made to various maps in terms of monster density, chests, number of rare and magic monsters, essences, strongboxes, shrines and all of this is without specific Waystone or Tower modifiers. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 Another artifact reflecting the sharp divides between rich and poor is an elaborate 800-pound steel strongbox that would have been used to store money—a great deal of it—in the home. Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023 Today the sacred strongbox largely is in the hands of the cultural Left. John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020 By August 3, Bitcoin had rebounded by 15% to $23,300, raising the value of MicroStrategy’s strongbox by around $400 million. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022 Keep in mind that right now, its Bitcoin strongbox is worth just $700 million or so more than its debt. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022 By the time the duke and a boat containing his strongbox of memoirs and political documents were loaded, only one other boat was able to escape. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 June 2022 Police were called and found that two rings were missing from the master closet, where a strongbox had been moved and pried open. Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2020 An audit was carried out and discovered Bisher was writing checks to herself from the company’s strongbox. Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 5 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strongbox
Noun
  • Even in the theft of Palmer’s green jacket and other bigger-ticket items, Church said, there was no sophisticated scheme to access vaults where Augusta National kept historical items under tight security.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Athena is on the ship to find someone who isn't supposed to be on there, who's got their eye on all the money in the vault.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Gale allegedly made one victim empty the money from a locked safe, the store’s register and her pocketbook into a bag.
    Rick Sobey, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The directive instructs them to empty safes containing classified and personnel records and shred as many documents as possible.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The flood of private cash — the largest, single-period haul out of any of the 2025 mayoral candidates to date — flowed into Cuomo’s coffers between his March 1 campaign launch and this past Friday, the close of the last reporting period.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2025
  • So that money, too, is likely to come from ACHD’s own coffers.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 11 Mar. 2025

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“Strongbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strongbox. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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