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civil lists

civil lists is the plural of civil list.

Meaning of civil list

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

Questions about civil lists

What is civil lists the plural of?
Civil lists is the plural of civil list.

Words near civil lists in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: civil lists (page history and authors); civil list (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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