ship money
Britishnoun
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Direct transfers are the fastest way to ship money out of the Treasury, but they don't provide stimulus if they don't get spent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Direct transfers are the fastest way to ship money out of the Treasury, but they don't provide stimulus if they don't get spent.
From Time Magazine Archive
To waver about ship money until one knows whether Charles or Hampden is on the side of one's Church is dishonesty.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
Another mode of levying money adopted by the king was what was called ship money.
From Charles I Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
Among other things provisions were made for an extensive naval establishment, based on a contribution that grew into the ship money of later fame.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus
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