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Noun: call box  kol bóks
  1. [Brit] Booth for using a telephone
    "In the pre-mobile era, he had to find a call box to make an urgent call";
    - telephone booth [N. Amer], phone booth [N. Amer], telephone box [Brit], telephone kiosk, phone box
     
  2. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for
    "He checked his call box daily for the expected package";
    - Post-Office box, PO Box, POB, letter box [Brit]

Derived forms: call boxes

Type of: booth, compartment, cubicle, kiosk, stall

Encyclopedia: Call box