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

Colonial loans are not charged on the Consolidated Fund.

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

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 Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough

Imperial credit for Land Purchase to be extended as before, by loans guaranteed on the Consolidated Fund, under any conditions now or hereafter to be made by the Imperial authorities.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

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 Albert Venn Dicey

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

From Home Rule Second Edition by Harold Spender