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civil list

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civil list
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Britain) the annuities voted by Parliament for the support of the royal household and the royal family
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Noun1.Civil List - a sum of money voted by British Parliament each year for the expenses of the British royal family
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
budget - a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose; "the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year"


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There was the police department, and the fire and water departments, and the whole balance of the civil list, from the meanest office boy to the head of a city department; and for the horde who could find no room in these, there was the world of vice and crime, there was license to seduce, to swindle and plunder and prey.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
Well, these twelve thousand livres are his civil list, and are as essential to him as the twelve millions of a king.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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