Consolidated Fund

American  

noun

1. a British national fund created to pay grants to the royal family, interest on public debt, etc., by consolidating various public securities.

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Consolidated Fund British  

noun

1. a fund into which tax revenue is paid in order to meet standing charges, esp interest payments on the national debt

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Example Sentences

By taking this on the Consolidated Fund, the landowners would be immensely relieved in all those counties which kept a police.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 by Benson, Arthur Christopher

On and after the appointed day there shall be an Irish Consolidated Fund separate from the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.

From England's Case Against Home Rule by Dicey, Albert Venn

Their salaries are charged on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, and they are removable only on an address to the Houses of the Imperial Parliament.

From A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 by Dicey, Albert Venn

It then went on to authorise the Lord Lieutenant to appoint surveyors to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

The Bill provides for the establishment of an Irish Exchequer and an Irish Consolidated Fund.

From Home Rule Second Edition by Spender, Harold