| 单词 | going-away club | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoing-away club   going-away club  n. now historical (chiefly in northern England) a savings club in which members build up holiday funds by making regular small payments. ΚΠ 1885    Chambers's Jrnl. 24 Jan. 57/1  				Most of the Lancashire towns have their ‘going-away clubs’..into which each man puts weekly what he can spare. 1912    A. Bennett Matador of Five Towns & Other Stories 135  				William Henry began grimly to pay his subscriptions to the next year's Going Away Club. 1928    Observer 1 July 21/4  				The amount of money which has been disbursed by the ‘Going-away clubs’ is as large as ever. 2001    T. Griffiths Lancs. Working Classes vi. 212  				A case in point is provided by the ‘going away’ clubs, present in most cotton towns through the period. < as lemmas | 
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