"Christmas box" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Christmas boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Christmas box (plural Christmas boxes)
  1. (historical) A bonus or gift given by an employer to an employee, by a master/mistress to his/her servants, or by a householder to delivery persons at Christmas time, traditionally on Boxing Day. Tags: historical Hyponyms: Christmas allowance, Christmas bonus, Christmas money Translations (bonus or gift): kerstpakket [neuter] (Dutch), Weihnachtsgeld [neuter] (German), aguinaldo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-Christmas_box-en-noun-uqR1FJAe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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