单词 | going-away club |
释义 | > as lemmasgoing-away club going-away club n. now historical (chiefly in northern England) a savings club in which members build up holiday funds by making regular small payments. ΚΠ 1885 Chambers's Jrnl. 24 Jan. 57/1 Most of the Lancashire towns have their ‘going-away clubs’..into which each man puts weekly what he can spare. 1912 A. Bennett Matador of Five Towns & Other Stories 135 William Henry began grimly to pay his subscriptions to the next year's Going Away Club. 1928 Observer 1 July 21/4 The amount of money which has been disbursed by the ‘Going-away clubs’ is as large as ever. 2001 T. Griffiths Lancs. Working Classes vi. 212 A case in point is provided by the ‘going away’ clubs, present in most cotton towns through the period. < as lemmas |
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