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单词 vote of credit
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vote of credit
b. A sum on account, which a government or council is empowered by vote of a parliament, an electoral body, etc., to borrow and spend in exceptional circumstances in anticipation of the amount voted in the annual estimates. Also: the making available of such a sum; often in vote of credit.Votes of credit are not now a regular part of United Kingdom parliamentary procedure, nor is this sense current in North America.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit > of government
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1693 Price of Abdication 15 Though the Commons voted a Credit for borrowing 400000 l. for the present Payment of the Sea-men, and Victualling the Fleet, yet there was very lately but One hundred and twenty thousand Pounds advanced.
1716 Hist & Polit. Mercury June 272 We must likewise thankfully acknowledge the several Marks of Confidence you have placed in us, more particularly your seasonable and unprecedented Vote of Credit, which will remain a memorable Proof of your unbounded Zeal.
1780 London Chron. 24 Feb. 2/1 He proposed that a vote of credit should be passed for the sums demanded.
1810 Parl. Reg. III. 615 The lords commissioners..had declared the royal assent to the loan bill, the vote of credit bill,..and several private bills.
1854 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 135 598 I rise for the purpose of asking the Committee to agree to a Vote of 3,000,000l. in Supply, usually denominated a Vote of Credit.
1868 Special Laws State of Minnesota lxxxii. 366 If it shall appear upon the canvass of the votes of said cities that a majority of the qualified voters in either voting at such special elections, have voted in favor of the grants of credit and issue of bonds as aforesaid, then the city or common council of such city shall grant its credit and issue the bonds of the city therefor in conformity with this act.
1891 Northwestern Reporter 49 310/2 This Is a petition for mandamus to compel the county of Saginaw to allow the township of Thomastown a credit for $1.830.48 and interest, and to provide for the payment thereof.
1947 Standing Orders i. 13 in Parl. Papers (Cmd. 6) XXI. 235 But such business shall not include any vote of credit or votes for supplementary or additional estimates for war expenditure.
1955 Bull. Atomic Sci. Feb. 72/3 The Swiss National Council (lower house of Parliament) voted a credit of $2,708,000 as the state's share in the construction of a nuclear pile.
1997 S. G. Deogaonkar Parl. Syst. in India iii. 116 In such a case, the House might grant the lump-sum money without details through a vote of credit passed by the House.
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