post office box

See also: post-office box

English

Alternative forms

• post-office box

Noun

post office box (plural post office boxes)

1. A uniquely addressable lockable box located on the premises of a post office that may be hired as collection point for mail.
2. (electricity) A test instrument once used by telephone engineers.

Synonyms

• PO box
• postal box

Abbreviations

• PO Box

Translations

box hired as collection point for mail

• Dutch: postbus (nl) c
• Finnish: postilokero (fi)
• French: boîte postale (fr) f, case postale (fr) f (Switzerland)
• German: Postfach (de) n
• Greek: ταχυδρομική θυρίδα f (tachydromikí thyrída)
• Hungarian: postafiók (hu)
• Italian: casella postale
• Khmer: ប្រអប់ប្រៃសណីយ៍ (prɑ'ɑp praysa'nii)
• Manx: kishtey post m, kishtey screeuyn m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: postboks m

  Nynorsk: postboks m

• Polish: skrytka pocztowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: caixa de coleta f
• Romanian: cutie poștală f
• Russian: почто́вый абоне́нтский я́щик m (počtóvyj abonéntskij jáščik)
• Spanish: apartado postal m
• Swedish: postbox (sv) c

Further reading

• post office box on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• post office box (electricity) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia