workbox
nounEtymology From work + box.
1
A toolbox; a container for the items needed to carry out a task.
- The sewing workbox held fabric, needles, notions, patterns, and other supplies.
2
Figuratively A set of skills and approaches.
- As with an understanding of the basic elements, knowing something of how sub-elements work gives insight into how stories generally are put together, thus adding another analytical tool to the pupils's ^([sic]) mental workbox.2009, Stephen Bowkett, Countdown to Creative Writing:
- Hypernyms
- box