| 单词 | community chest |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommunity chest community chest n. †(a) a chest in which assets are kept jointly (obsolete); (b) (originally U.S.) a fund made up of individual donations to meet the needs for charity and social welfare work in a community; (also) an organization which manages such a fund. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose > for other purposes alms purse1530 privy purse1565 sinking fund1717 stakea1744 pension fund1757 spare-chest1769 road fund1784 revolving fund1793 community chest1796 provident fund1817 sustentation fund1837 wages-fund1848 slush fund1874 treasury chest fund1877 fall money1883 jackpot1884 provision1895 war chest1901 juice1935 fighting fund1940 structural fund1967 appeal fund1976 1796 W. Tooke tr. C. M. Wieland Private Hist. Peregrinus Proteus II. 225 The large sums which had flowed from my estate into the community-chest [Ger. Brüder-Casse] of Kerinthus and Hegesias. 1918 Lancaster (Ohio) Daily Eagle 3 Apr. 1/4 The causes which will come to this community Chest for relief are humanitarian and patriotic in the highest degree. 1964 S. M. Miller in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 308 Securing representation on Community Chests and the like. 2001 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 2/6 Mr Blair announced..£50 million to support local projects through ‘community chests’ administered with minimum bureaucracy. < as lemmas |
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