banker's box
banker's box · banker's boxes
A file box: a cardboard box designed to hold paper filesA file box: a cardboard box designed to hold paper files.
Meaning
1 sensesA file box: a cardboard box designed to hold paper files.
Origin
A genericized trademark from the Bankers Box brand name (which itself was probably propriaA genericized trademark from the Bankers Box brand name (which itself was probably proprialized from the nonproprietary collocation at a time when cardboard file boxes were still novel and not widely known outside of certain occupations such as banking and insurance).
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