Wiktionary
a. Safe enough to store valuables securely n. A safe-deposit box
WordNet
adj. safe for the storage of valuables; "kept the deed in his safe-deposit box at the bank" [syn: safety-deposit]
n. a fireproof metal strongbox (usually in a bank) for storing valuables [syn: safe-deposit box, safety-deposit, safety deposit box, deposit box, lockbox]
Usage examples of "safe-deposit".
Paradise: young women in his bed and his safe-deposit boxes brimming with the best of the gems that the South American gangs brought to him.
Here Naomi returned carrying paper grocery bags and rubber bands and they went to work again binding up the bills and stowing them neatly away for the trip on Monday to the safe-deposit box.
Armed with that authorization, she'd proceeded to the First National Bank, where she'd been granted access to Allison's financial records and safe-deposit box.
He told her and Tony about the missing funds in San Francisco, about the dead ringer who had left the bizarre letter in the safe-deposit box--and about his own growing uncertainty as to the identity of the dead man in Bruno Frye's grave.
Harlan Ames traced the missing manuscript to a safe-deposit box in the name of Taylor.
With the funds he had removed from the safe-deposit boxes, he now had $150,000 in immediate operating capital, enough to deal with virtually any contingency that might arise.
As in the newspaper photo Bosch had seen, hundreds of safe-deposit box doors stood open.
After all, this was where he had typed the letter that he'd put in the safe-deposit box, so this must be where he had heard the news.
In addition, a numbered bank account will be opened for you in Zurich, along with a safe-deposit box.
He'd have to do some quick shopping in the morning, and also visit his bank to pull his Demetrius passport out of the safe-deposit box.
If they had wanted to leave an upsetting teaser in the safe-deposit box, they would have left a photo of the warehouse that he had robbed in New Jersey.
She did have a safe-deposit box at the Longstreet State Bank, but Bobby went into the bank records and found that she visited the box only once or twice a year.