whip-round (redirected from whip-rounds)

whip-round Informal chiefly Brit

n

(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) an impromptu collection of money

vb whip round

(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) (intr, adverb) to make such a collection of money

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

whip-round - (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose ingathering, solicitation, collection, appeal - request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" 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

Translations

whip-round [ˈwɪpraʊnd] N → colecta f
to have a whip-round (for sb) → hacer una colecta(para algn)

whip-round

n (esp Brit inf) to have a whip-round → den Hut herumgehen lassen

whip-round [ˈwɪpˌraʊnd] n (Brit) (fam) → colletta
to have a whip-round for sb → fare una colletta per qn