danger money
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The case involved power, danger, money and privilege and an attorney whose family lorded over his small South Carolina county for nearly a century.
From Seattle Times • May 30, 2024
On 9 January, it is announced that more than 1,000 prison service staff in Northern Ireland are to receive special annual danger money payments because of the threat from dissident republicans.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023
Nurses and medical assistants fighting the Ebola outbreak in Liberia have largely ignored a call to strike over danger money and conditions.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2014
British actors required to work on such a set would, I feel, either protest to their union or ask for danger money.
From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2011
For every joy or blessing and for those who have relatives or friends ill or in danger, money is freely dropped into the box.
From Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago by Trager, Hannah
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