The National Lottery provides extra money for deserving causes.deservingde‧serv‧ing /dɪˈzɜːvɪŋ $ -ɜːr-/ adjective 
The National Lottery provides extra money for deserving causes.2be deserving of something formal to deserve something: Some criminals are more deserving of their punishment than others.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The government has wrongly denied benefits to many deserving children.
- A distinction would be made between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
- A problem deserving consideration is how strong the rebel forces actually were.
- But it says with it has a limited budget and Touchdown will have to compete with other deserving projects.
- The college has had the heart-rending task of choosing between applications from equally deserving cases.
- Three ads, two deserving causes and a guy offering to sell me information.
- You see, the parish owns some property which is rented very cheaply to deserving people.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The National Lottery provides extra money for deserving causes.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The National Lottery provides extra money for deserving causes. (=a good cause)· The Red Cross is a very worthy cause.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· To many of them the active life seems more deserving because of the amount of good works and preaching it performs.· Yet what is more deserving of anyone's attention than getting the sales orders upon which the survival of the enterprise depends?· It fitted into a briefcase, and being battery powered was more deserving of the term portable.· I can think of fewer couples more deserving of homage.· No Boro player is more deserving of a summer rest.
· Genius is often most deserving of praise when it is most sure to be condemned.· But sometimes it's difficult to sort out which causes are the most deserving of support.
NOUN· The college has had the heart-rending task of choosing between applications from equally deserving cases.· They say: It could be spent on more deserving cases.· Moreover, as I explained to you, I have a waiting list of really deserving cases.· In deserving cases the courts would sometimes find implied permission.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1needing help and support, especially financial supportdeserving causes/cases- Howard is certainly deserving of the Heisman Trophy.
- But it would be interesting to know why he has deemed the Navy to be deserving of his interests.
- Law bolstered the moral order of society and judges, as custodians of those values, were deserving of respect and trust.
- This contract would specify what reasonable amount of progress is deserving of reward.
- Three Latin American novels are especially worthy of note.
- A number of measures of lesser importance but worthy of note were passed during Pinay Cuevas' ministership.
- But the miners' sense of anger at the prolonged destruction of their industry is also worthy of note.
- Finally, one general feature of the framework of this subsection is worthy of note, in order to facilitate comparisons between models.
- If this loyalty is stretched over a period of 28 years, it is certainly worthy of note!
- Other strategies are worthy of note.
- Our request for bagels worthy of note drew more than 500 responses.
- Secondly, the ancestors of Doctor Who are worthy of note, especially considering the nature of the show.
- This service is superb and worthy of note in your magazine.
The National Lottery provides extra money for deserving causes.2be deserving of something formal to deserve something: Some criminals are more deserving of their punishment than others.