单词 | allotment note |
释义 | > as lemmasallotment note 6. Originally British. In the Navy: the payment of part of a seaman's wages to a nominated person, typically a spouse or family member; a payment of this type. In later use also extended to people serving in the merchant navy and the other armed forces. Also (more fully allotment note): a document authorizing such a payment. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > sailor's pay > types of address1562 full pay1579 river pay1708 flag-pay1719 port pay1758 allotment1766 portage1809 1766 D. Pickering Statutes at Large XXII. 212 Such allotment shall be made by any such inferior officer or seaman, of any such part of his wages or pay, to his wife, father, or mother. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 32 Allotment, a part of the pay apportioned monthly to the wives, children, mothers, or destitute fathers of the warrant and petty officers, seamen, and marines. 1883 United Service Sept. 267 There's no Mary on this ship's books as I knows of, though I remember an allotment made out to a person of that name. 1894 Act 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60 §141 (2) The seaman may require that a stipulation be inserted in the agreement for the allotment by means of an allotment note, of any part (not exceeding one half) of his wages in favour either of a near relative or of a savings bank. 1917 H. W. Waldon Company Admin. (ed. 3) xii. 88 On transfer, a soldier's descriptive list should show his allotment and to what time collection of allotment has been made from his pay. 1953 ‘R. Gordon’ Doctor at Sea vi. 82 Long voyages and young wives don't mix. You leave the allotment of your pay and if you don't get a letter at every port you wonder what's up. 2006 M. E. Sullivan Mil. Divorce Handbk. 280 The Army has no legal authority to deduct money from a soldier's pay without his consent unless garnishment or involuntary allotment has been ordered by a civilian court. < as lemmas |
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