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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Consolidated Fund

A sum was to be charged on the Consolidated Fund to enable the Council to meet the expenditure of the transferred Departments.

From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.

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

As to existing judges and other persons having salaries charged on the Consolidated Fund.

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 may also be described with statutory authority as “The Account of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

Colonial loans are not charged on the Consolidated Fund.

From Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union by Rosenbaum, S.