poor box in English
noun
1
a collection box, especially one in a church, for gifts of money or other articles toward the relief of the poor.
Returning at dawn I slipped into the church and stuffed the stolen money back into the poor box .
noun
alms box
Use "poor box" in a sentence
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1. Brass candlesticks, almost nothing in the poor box.
2. The new poor box was replaced and padlocked near the baptismal font.
3. 29 Colette works at marshalling our feelings of revulsion at this voracious creature who has almost killed the poor box thorn.