单词 | sharing-out club |
释义 | > as lemmassharing-out club a. British. Designating a club, society, etc., set up as a short-term savings scheme in which participants regularly deposit a sum of money in order to receive a share of the funds at a specified date (typically Christmas), (in early use) esp. a type of friendly society formed by working-class labourers, intended to provide sickness pay and other benefits for members, and typically administered by the landlord of a local pub, as in , as in sharing-out club, sharing-out society. Cf. share-out n. Compounds 1. Now historical. ΚΠ 1854 Reynolds's Newspaper 7 May 16/2 A ‘sharing-out friendly society’ cannot, except by some extraordinary stroke of good fortune, last longer than thirty years. 1871 2nd Rep. Comm. Friendly Soc. (1872) ii. 37/2 The sharing out clubs..mostly exist from year to year. 1965 Daily Mail 12 Nov. 6/7 [He] was jailed for nine months..yesterday for falsifying the loan register of Camberwell Brotherhood Sick and Sharing-Out Society. 1995 R. Fitzgerald Rowntree & Marketing Revol. 235 The company, nevertheless, decided to formalise sick pay arrangements and replace the poorly planned sharing out club. < as lemmas |
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