| 单词 | town relief |
| 释义 | > as lemmastown relief town relief n. relief given to the poor or needy from town funds. ΚΠ 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xxi. 291 For Town Relief the grieving Man applied, And beg'd with tears, what some with scorn denied. 1900 Times 25 Dec. 4/2 Of the sum of £3, 741 2s. 10d. disbursed in town relief, £3,166 16s. 1d. was distributed..to those in distress and privation through the siege [of Mafeking]. 1964 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 29 408/2 At the time of his death, Weiler was in the process of completing a study of town relief in the State of Maine. 2001 P. W. Hunter Purchasing Identity in Atlantic World iv. 129 The townspeople may have hoped to put their most affluent citizens under obligation to contribute to town relief. < as lemmas |
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