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dispatch box

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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
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Noun 1. dispatch box - case consisting of an oblong container (usually having a lock) for carrying dispatches or other valuables
case - a portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage"
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Rawdon sat down in the study before the Baronet's table, set out with the orderly blue books and the letters, the neatly docketed bills and symmetrical pamphlets, the locked account-books, desks, and dispatch boxes, the Bible, the Quarterly Review, and the Court Guide, which all stood as if on parade awaiting the inspection of their chief.
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They said they'd clamp down on waste but the cost of ferrying ministers' red boxes round in air-conditioned luxury cars has increased." The Department for Transport said: "We have cut the costs of transporting dispatch boxes by over half from PS110,865 in 2011/12 to PS44,001 in 2016/17."
Ministers blow PS400k on taxis for their red boxes
Visitors are also now barred from leaning on the dispatch boxes and table leaned on by politicians addressing the House of Commons.
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