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.

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

An Irish Exchequer and an Irish Consolidated Fund will be created, and an Irish Auditor-General appointed.

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

Provisions as to judges and other persons having salaries charged on the Consolidated Fund.

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

In 1874 a Poor Law Act granted four shillings per head out of the Consolidated Fund to paupers in asylums, to the effects of which we shall have to refer in the next chapter.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack