in-box

in-box (plural in-boxes)

1. Alternative form of inbox
   • 1999, Michael Szenberg, Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, page 187:

     Academic life, like any other, has a full in-box. A professor can stay busy answering his or her mail.

   • 2002, Perry M. Smith, Rules & Tools for Leaders, page 122:

     Since your next job may not have a very full in-box or a very heavy schedule, and might lack some of the psychic rewards that your previous leadership job had, your state of depression may worsen.

   • 2006, Sally Beare, 50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People, page 177:

     Our livers were never designed to have such a full in-box, and because most people are nutritionally deficient, the body also lacks the materials needed for detoxification

in-box (third-person singular simple present in-boxes, present participle in-boxing, simple past and past participle in-boxed)

1. Alternative form of inbox

• box in