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gate moneynoun [mass noun]1British The total amount of money paid for admission to a sports ground for an event: the gate money from the match will be shared between both clubs...- Instead of taking a fixed salary he settled for five per cent of the gate money.
- All gate money raised at the event will be presented to the Army Welfare Society for use of disabled soldiers.
- Our gate money has gone into lawyers' pockets rather than into the development of the game.
2US informal Money given to a prisoner on their release: he got out of Pleasant Valley Prison with only $200 in gate money...- Parolees come out of prison with $100 in what corrections officials call gate money, an amount that has not increased since the 1970s.
- All he has is $200 in gate money he got when he left prison and a couple hundred he saved by working for 32 cents an hour.
- Brown was not even paid the normal release stipend, or gate money, that prisoners traditionally receive.
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