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Example sentences from the Web for gate moneyI only ask for a per-centage on gate-money, and I place the idea at the disposition of the Aquarium. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890.|Various As for the greed of gate-money, of which some clubs are so fond, much might be said. Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches|David Drummond Bone This is costly; but again the cash comes out of the spectators' pockets, in subscriptions and gate-money. From a Cornish Window|Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch This sort of business is not peculiar to pedestrians; there are such things as gate-money meetings at horse-racing. The Slang Dictionary|John Camden Hotten
nounthe total receipts taken for admission to a sporting event or other entertainment Words nearby gate moneygatehouse, gatekeeper, gate leg, gate-leg table, gateman, gate money, gatepost, gater, Gates, Gates, Bill, Gateshead Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |