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civil list

civil list noun: a list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government, originally for expenses supporting the monarch.

Noun

civil list (plural civil lists)

  1. A list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government, originally for expenses supporting the monarch.
    • The recession also affected the textile industry and in 1868 urban protests forced the government to reduce taxation and cut the royal family's civil list.2018, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal

civil list meaning in Tamil and Kannada

civil list in Tamil

அரசுப் பணியாளர் பட்டியல், அரசுப் பணியாளர் விவரப் பட்டியல், குடிமுறைப் பட்டியல்

civil list in Kannada

ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿ ಪಟ್ಟಿ

Forms of civil list

pluralcivil lists

Questions about civil list

What does civil list mean?
Civil list means a list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government, originally for expenses supporting the monarch.
What is civil list in Tamil?
Civil list in Tamil is அரசுப் பணியாளர் பட்டியல், அரசுப் பணியாளர் விவரப் பட்டியல், குடிமுறைப் பட்டியல். See Civil list meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is civil list?
Civil list is a noun.
What is the plural of civil list?
The plural of civil list is civil lists.

Words near civil list in the dictionary

  1. civil law notary
  2. civil laws
  3. civil libertarian
  4. civil liberties
  5. civil liberty
  6. civil list
  7. civil lists
  8. civil marriage
  9. civil marriages
  10. civil parish
  11. civil parishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: civil list (page history and authors); civil list (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); civil list (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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