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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
strongroom
noun
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▪ In 1976, thirty-six boxes were returned and are now kept in a strongroom in the archbishop's palace at Padua.
▪ The robbers opened the strongroom and packed the cash into bags.
▪ The robbers then used computer key-codes to open the strongroom, and packed the 200 million francs into bags.
▪ You need to open up a locked strongroom, and to do this you must retrieve some 5 keys.
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strongroom

alt. A strongly built room, or vault, where valuables may be stored in safety n. A strongly built room, or vault, where valuables may be stored in safety

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strongroom

n. and burglarproof and fireproof room in which valuables are kept

Wikipedia
Strongroom (film)

Strongroom is a 1962 British crime drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derren Nesbitt, Colin Gordon and Ann Lynn. During a bank robbery the bank manager, and cashier are locked in a safe, but the criminals are forced to return to the bank to release them before the police arrive.

Usage examples of "strongroom".

Trapped in his strongroom, completely dependent on his communi cations network, he would have no idea what was hap pening.

Returning to the strongroom he unlocked a bizarre metal casket to which he alone possessed the combination and extracted from it a red hand-bound volume similar in weight and portent to a ship's log, and encompassed by a kind of iron chastity belt, the two ends of which met in a second lock which Osnard also opened.