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Meaning of green box | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An upper box in a theatre.
  2. A class of subsidies allowed by the World Trade Organization understood to cause minimal disruption to trade.
  3. A device used in phreaking to produce various tones (coin collect, coin return, and ringback) that allow illicit control of a payphone.

Examples

“And we shall sit in the gallery green-box.”
“I told her the strength of my purse, and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful spring of thirteen, stuck up in a green box with a blazing whore.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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