| 单词 | conscience money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconscience money conscience money n. money sent or paid to relieve the conscience of a person who feels guilty; spec. money in payment of a tax that was previously evaded (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > to ease the conscience conscience money1834 1834 Missionary Herald (Boston) Nov. 428/2 Worcester co. Ms. A friend, conscience money 20 00. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliv. 396 One reads in the columns of the Times newspaper..queer announcements from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, acknowledging the receipt of £50 from A.B...as conscience-money, on account of taxes due. 1885 ‘H. Conway’ Family Affair I. i. 3 Those tender-minded persons who send conscience-money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 2/3 Those who have to contribute the tax in the form of ‘conscience money’. 1961 P. Ustinov Loser ii. 35 Two men he had never seen before rose from their tables and paid the difference... It was conscience money. 2009 M. Weissenbacher Sources of Power I. iii. xiv. 321 This so-called Gadsden Purchase..was a deal worth $10 million and was viewed as conscience money by many Americans who felt that the United States had treated the Republic of Mexico badly. < as lemmas |
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