"mite box" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From (widow's) mite (“small donation”) + box.",
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          "ref": "1951, Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye, published 2004, page 20",
          "text": "Even if there had been time for mite boxes they were not such a good idea after all, she corrected herself.[…]It was not a neat and tidy mite box the way Beulah Ball's was; it was a dirty, torn, loose mite box, and so was Jerry's.",
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Carol Bonomo, Humble Pie: St. Benedict's Ladder of Humility, page 46",
          "text": "For us, Lent was about the mite boxes we were given in each Sunday school class through sixth grade.",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Marty Toohey, Bronx Boy: A Memoir, page 76",
          "text": "Sister Vincetta, principal of St. Augustine's Elementary School, told us that the pennies in the mite box fed starving children all over China.",
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        "A box, especially in a church, into which small charitable donations for the needy may be placed; (now commonly) any of a number of cardboard boxes distributed for individual donations."
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          "sense": "box for small donations",
          "word": "alms box"
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          "sense": "box for small donations",
          "word": "poor box"
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          "ref": "1951, Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye, published 2004, page 20",
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        },
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      "sense": "box for small donations",
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      "sense": "box for small donations",
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  "word": "mite box"
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