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conscience money
noun
- money paid, often anonymously, to relieve one's conscience, as for an obligation previously evaded or a wrong done.
conscience money
noun
- money paid voluntarily to compensate for dishonesty, esp money paid voluntarily for taxes formerly evaded
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Word History and Origins
Origin of conscience money1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
To a certain extent this was what we should now call "conscience money."
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There the agents of railroad companies distributed conscience money in the form of loans which were never to be paid back.
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Or perhaps she subsequently sent conscience money to the Red Cross anonymously.
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I only ordered the oysters and coffee; all the rest is conscience money—or sentiment—from the landlord.
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There are over two hundred thousand dollars in securities and they have evidently been left there by somebody as conscience-money.
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