provident club

British  

noun

1. a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations

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Example Sentences

These are subscriptions to a medical charity, to a provident club or coal or clothing society, to a friendly society; for nurses, for annuities, for outfit for service, &c.; for emigration; for recreation grounds, clubs, reading-rooms, museums, lectures; for temporary relief to a limited amount in each year; for clothes fuel, tools, medical aid, food, &c., or in money “in cases of unexpected loss or sudden destitution”; for pensions.

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Of course too the local provident club had come to utter and hopeless grief.

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“Don’t you belong to the Provident Club?” asked Miss Unity, with a faint hope that Nurse might have been wrong.

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The small Provident Club, instituted by Felix to check the waste and thriftlessness of the people, had already, in his short absence, elected another treasurer of its scanty funds; and the members who formed it, working men and women who had been gathered together by his personal influence, treated him with but scant civility.

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