table money

British  

noun

1. an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army

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Example Sentences

College sports lost me when under the table money and other illegal deals permeated recruiting and now, of course, NIL money is changing the landscape.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2024

Each club is asked to make a surcharge to the regular table money and send that to the ECatsBridge charity account, from where it will be forwarded to Unicef.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2010

There were the usual receptions at the White House, and at several of the foreign legations the allowance of "table money" was judiciously expended, but there were not many large evening parties or balls.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley

From the overturned table money rattled to the floor and rolled into distant corners.

From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John)

The salary was 200 pounds per year, with a residence and certain small allowances such as fire and light, and one shilling and twopence per day table money.

From The Life of Captain James Cook by Kitson, Arthur