in-box

A form of inbox — A container in which papers to be dealt with are put.

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Meanings

nounin-box (plural in-boxes)

plural in-boxes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of inbox.

    Academic life, like any other, has a full in-box. A professor can stay busy answering his or her mail.

    1999, Michael Szenberg, Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, page 187
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    Since your next job may not have a very full in-box or a very heavy schedule, and might lack some of the psychic rewards that your previous leadership job had, your state of depression may worsen.

    2002, Perry M. Smith, Rules & Tools for Leaders, page 122

    Our livers were never designed to have such a full in-box, and because most people are nutritionally deficient, the body also lacks the materials needed for detoxification

    2006, Sally Beare, 50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People, page 177
verbin-box (third-person singular simple present in-boxes, present participle in-boxing, simple past and past participle in-boxed)

present singular third person in-boxes · participle present in-boxing · participle past in-boxed · past in-boxed

  1. alternativeAlternative form of inbox.
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Chicago

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