inbox
or in-box
a boxlike tray, basket, or the like, as on a desk, for holding incoming mail, messages, or work.
Computers. a folder for receiving and storing incoming emails or text messages.
Origin of inbox
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How to use inbox in a sentence
I have bills to pay and strollers to repair and urgent, slipped-through-the-cracks work to finish and stuffed inboxes to cry over.
Do you know how many hands/minds/email inboxes this had to pass through from initial concept to official release?
Volkswagen’s Super Bowl Ad an Unfunny Slight to Culture | Pia Glenn | January 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThat's what John Ensign is really worried about now—not the contents of his several pseudonymous email inboxes.
The 12 Juiciest Bits From the Ensign Sex Scandal Report | David A. Graham | May 13, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTLast summer users began receiving messages from friends on their walls and in their inboxes that read, “LOL is this you?”
We get a lot of tips in our inboxes, and quite a few of them indicated a soft open around the end of May.
British Dictionary definitions for inbox
/ (ˈɪnˌbɒks) /
(on a computer) a folder in a mailbox in which incoming messages are stored and displayed
a US and Canadian name for in-tray
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