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

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.

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

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

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

From Home Rule Second Edition by Spender, Harold

He transfers to the Consolidated Fund all the salaries heretofore partly paid by the Civil List, and in diplomacy there is a reduction of 28,000£ a year.

From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of