| 单词 | road fund |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad fund road fund n. a fund established to meet the cost of building and maintaining roads and bridges; spec. that set up in Britain by the Roads Act of 1920 and dissolved by Parliament in 1955; also attributive, as road fund tax, etc. (see also road fund licence n.).In colloquial use sometimes still designating or denoting the British vehicle licence tax which succeeded the road 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 1784 Bermuda: Act to supply Deficiency of Fund 11 Forty-eight pounds fifteen shillings, the ballance of the Road Fund. 1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 19 Apr. 242/1 The whole together, along with 69 steelyards, or cart-weighing machines, having cost the road funds not less than L. 10,000. 1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 72 §3 There shall be established for the purposes of this Act,..a fund to be called the Road Fund. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 88 The Chancellor of the Exchequer..is raiding the road-fund. 1948 G. Frost Flying Squad xiii. 147 If in doubt, the purchaser should make a note of the serial numbers on it, and..put through an inquiry to the Road Fund office for this area. 1965 Times 22 May 9 I have yet to see a reasoned argument against abolishing the road fund tax and raising the necessary revenue by a corresponding increase in the fuel tax. 2000 Moscow Times (Electronic ed.) 14 July The potholed, mud-laden state of the nation's roads lie in testimony to the road fund's notoriety for corruption and non-transparency. < as lemmas |
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