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conscience money

conscience money noun: money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence.

Noun

conscience money (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence.
    • The Secretary of the Treasury is almost daily in receipt of installments of conscience-money, which the perturbed moral sense of a guilty office-holder or other defrauder of the government suggests the payment of in order to obtain "a still and quiet conscience."1865 November 23, “From Washington”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Aug 2014
    • "Whatever I've done, I've always been criticized. . . . If I donated to a church, it was called conscience money; and if I didn't donate to it, they said I was mean and miserly."1918, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 1, in Oh, Money! Money!

conscience money meaning in Tamil

conscience money in Tamil

மனவுறுத்தல்

Examples of conscience money in a sentence

  • Other US companies, keen to be seen making the politically correct investment now, are bringing ‘conscience money’ to the new South Africa.1994 May 3, Richard Dowden, “most-south-africans-will-not-see-newfound-wealth-overnight-says-richard-dowden-1433381.html Big Mac and Coke?...
  • He described the aid work done by religious missions as "conscience money" to make up for the harm they have done.2010 November 28, Paul Harris, “Tony Blair v Christopher Hitchens: fight the good fight”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 24 Aug 2014:

Forms of conscience money

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Questions about conscience money

What does conscience money mean?
Conscience money means money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence.
What is conscience money in Tamil?
Conscience money in Tamil is மனவுறுத்தல். See Conscience money meaning in Tamil.
How do you use conscience money in a sentence?
Other US companies, keen to be seen making the politically correct investment now, are bringing ‘conscience money’ to the new South Africa.
What part of speech is conscience money?
Conscience money is a noun.

Words near conscience money in the dictionary

  1. consaw
  2. consaws
  3. conscience
  4. conscience clause
  5. conscience clauses
  6. conscience money
  7. conscience round
  8. conscience rounds
  9. conscience vote
  10. conscience votes
  11. conscience-money

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