| 单词 | share-out club |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshare-out club C1. British. As a modifier, designating a club, society, etc., set up as a short-term savings scheme in which participants regularly deposit a sum of money in order to receive a share of the funds at a specified date (typically Christmas), (in early use) esp. a type of friendly society formed by working-class labourers, intended to provide sickness pay for members, and typically administered by the landlord of a local pub, as in share-out club, share-out society. Cf. sharing n.2 Compounds 2a. Now historical. ΚΠ 1864 Sussex Advertiser 15 June (People's ed.) What is generally called or known by the name of ‘Share-out Clubs’ came into fashion. 1929 H. T. Wilkins Hunting Hidden Treasures i. 38 They were resolved into a committee of a share-out society. 1950 Dundee Courier 19 Dec. 2/1 I read in the London Correspondence column the other day that members of a share-out club each paid a halfpenny the first week and doubled their contributions in the following weeks. < as lemmas |
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