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gate-money

gate-money is the alternative form of gate money.

Meaning of gate money

Noun

gate money (uncountable)

  1. The money earned from patrons who pay as the price of admission to an event, which is sometimes distributed as payment to the performers, athletes or other workers.
  2. (slang) Money that is given to an inmate upon release from incarceration.

Questions about gate-money

What is gate-money the alternative form of?
Gate-money is the alternative form of gate money.

Words near gate-money in the dictionary

  1. gate-keepers
  2. gate-keeping
  3. gate-keeps
  4. gate-keepy
  5. gate-kept
  6. gate-money
  7. gate-to-wire
  8. gate-toothed
  9. gateability
  10. gateable
  11. Gateacre

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