"green box" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: green boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} green box (plural green boxes)
  1. (now historical) An upper box in a theatre. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-green_box-en-noun-z5T23bny Coordinate_terms: beige box, black box, blue box, brown box, gray box, orange box, purple box, red box, silver box, white box, yellow box
  2. A class of subsidies allowed by the World Trade Organization understood to cause minimal disruption to trade.
    Sense id: en-green_box-en-noun-ZvqkSE33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English links with redundant wikilinks, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 77 17 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 77 18 Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 15 68 17 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 12 71 16
  3. A device used in phreaking to produce various tones (coin collect, coin return, and ringback) that allow illicit control of a payphone. Categories (topical): Telephony
    Sense id: en-green_box-en-noun-6BpZNH4D Disambiguation of Telephony: 6 14 79

Inflected forms

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