outbox
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- noun
- /ˈaʊtˌbɑks/
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bandeja de salida
- This way I can grab it from my outbox and re-edit it, or at least remember to attach the attachment.
Examples
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After finishing the email, she sent it to the outbox for delivery.
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I got an e-mail in my outbox with a copy of that contract.
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This is your new outbox.
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Once you've attended to them, move them to the outbox.
Blog text (13) -
My Dad says that you can ́t control your inbox, but you can control your outbox.
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By the end of Clinton's first term, many of the issues that had piled up in the foreign policy inbox at the outset had been successfully transferred to the outbox.
Academic text (2009) -
The manager checked the outbox to ensure all important documents were sent.
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He placed the letter in the outbox before leaving for the post office.
Synonyms
A tray on a desk where you put papers to send out
A tray on a desk for holding letters and papers to send
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The noun outbox is made from out- and box, where out- means 'going out' and box means 'a container'. Think of inbox for messages that come in, so the outbox is the box for messages that are sent or still waiting to be sent.