| 单词 | road money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad money road money n. (a) money for travelling expenses (now rare); (b) money collected or allocated for the maintenance of roads; (in early use spec.) road tolls or tithes. Π 1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India 314 They have Road Money paid them every Month for Fresh-Provisions and Fruit. 1794 A. Pringle Gen. View Agric. Westmoreland 29 The farmer is subjected to the payment of tithes, poor's rates, and road money. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. i. 331 Except small modicum of roadmoney, not a gold coin in his possession. 1915 Pacific Reporter 146 987/1 All road money collected during 1914 and subsequent years, arising from road taxes on property in West Linn,..shall belong exclusively to West Linn. 1998 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 15 Aug. c15 What remains of the Southeast timber industry would collapse without road money. 2005 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 7 Sept. nrv2 Blacksburg will get nearly $250,000 in additional state road money this year... The money will speed several projects including stormwater management, traffic calming [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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