单词 | club-money |
释义 | > as lemmasclub-money club-money n. (a) money contributed towards a ‘club’ (cf. 10); (b) subscription to a benefit club or provident society; (c) money paid by a benefit club or provident society. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > money collected > to make up total sum club1660 club-money1836 1836–48 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Comedies 114 (note) The person who managed the arrangements of the feast collected the club-money. 1888 19th Cent. Mar. 460 What about club money? I know you belong to a provident society. 1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iii. 107 I saw a man die..a London bricklayer's labourer... He left seventeen pounds club money. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 55 An' there's compensation, sin' it's accident, An' club money—I nedn't grouse. < as lemmas |
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