civil list

noun

1. (in Britain) the annuities voted by Parliament for the support of the royal household and the royal family

Example Sentences

The revenue fox such a civil list would naturally be raised in America.

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The funds assigned some years before for the support of the civil list had fallen short of the estimate.

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But he had now made his peace with the Court, and was in the receipt of a large salary from the civil list.

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The papers with reference to the civil list were referred to a select committee, consisting of twenty-one members.

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The subject first brought before the attention of parliament by ministers was the arrangement of the civil list.

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