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civil list
noun
- (in Britain) the annuities voted by Parliament for the support of the royal household and the royal family
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The revenue fox such a civil list would naturally be raised in America.
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The funds assigned some years before for the support of the civil list had fallen short of the estimate.
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But he had now made his peace with the Court, and was in the receipt of a large salary from the civil list.
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The papers with reference to the civil list were referred to a select committee, consisting of twenty-one members.
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The subject first brought before the attention of parliament by ministers was the arrangement of the civil list.
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