whip-round
Britishnoun
verb
Example Sentences
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The politics of the office whip-round are so sensitive that everyone the BBC spoke to asked us not to use their real name.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
"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
Whatever, my point stands: in the whip-round for buying the Rock, Virgin was not the major contributor.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2013
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 Edmund Blunden
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