whip-round
Britishnoun
verb
Example Sentences
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Putin did not respond to the invitation to attend the upcoming nuptials, but did offer to organise a whip-round.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025
Welsh fans at the Hawk and Buckle pub, in Llannefydd near Denbigh, also showed their support by having a whip-round to raise money for the Ukrainian people.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2022
"They were really positive, really helpful. We had a whip-round for them because they'd been so brilliant and then they cried."
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2019
What started as a whip-round on Facebook led to hundreds of donations within a couple of weeks.
From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2017
Mead and myself, however, quarrelled over the amount which I subscribed to the whip-round.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund
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