(in Aboriginal English) unemployment or state benefits.
if he had not provided sit-down money many thousands would have starved
Example sentencesExamples
- It looked like most people were continuing to choose the "sit-down money" option.
- Many residents of these communities are relying on "sit down money".
- The alternative is unemployment benefits, the real sit down money.
- He has campaigned on ending so-called "sit down money".
- Sit-down money was instituted in 1975.
- They want to find ways to break their dependence on 'sit down money'.
- He wasn't the only person against "paying sit down money", he said.
- They had used their sit down money to buy four battered station wagons.
- It was during this time that sit-down money began coming.
- The availability of sit-down money undermined any ambition to make these leases profitable.