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civil list

noun

  1. (in Britain) the annuities voted by Parliament for the support of the royal household and the royal family
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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

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

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

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

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