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Difference between lockbox and safe

lockbox

Definitions

noun

  1. a fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables

Examples

How big of a lockbox? Eh, doesnt matter, just let me have all of the gold. Your kingdom thanks you.

In her lockbox, next to her never-requested letters to the FBI, she kept a suicide-grade packet of seconal.

Once they are given the right to protect plane and passengers, pilots must still carry their firearm in a lockbox.

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safe

Definitions

adjective

  1. having reached a base without being put out
  2. free from danger or the risk of harm
  3. financially safe
  4. (of an undertaking) secure from risk

noun

  1. contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
  2. a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests
  3. strongbox where valuables can be safely kept

Examples

If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.

Shah went forth with her for a distance of three parasangs; after which he bade farewell to her and the Wazir and those with him, and returned to his home in gladness and safety.

The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.

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