adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a benevolent/charitable fund (= for giving help to poor people )
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He contributed the sum of £1,500 to the benevolent fund.
charitable donations (= given to help poor people, a good project etc )
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Food shortages prompted a flood of charitable donations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Perhaps we should be a little more charitable , however.
■ NOUN
activity
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Each year, industry spends at least £125 million on charitable activities over and above straight forward donations.
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Or, thirdly, arrangements whereby the needy are increasingly looked after by voluntary and charitable activities .
body
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Projects are sponsored by community associations, voluntary or charitable bodies and local authorities.
cause
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But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes .
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By the spring of 1993, the parish was donating nearly two hundred thousand dollars each year to charitable causes .
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The house was never shown, the garden aided no charitable cause .
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Across all charities the average was 67 % spent on charitable causes in 1997, compared with 80 % five years earlier.
contribution
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The very sound of my name in quest of some charitable contribution sends many of them in flight to the Outer Hebrides.
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Those include the deductibility of charitable contributions , education expenses, interest and medical expenses.
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In 1696 he was arrested for signing and circulating an appeal for charitable contributions to relieve the extruded clergy.
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The vast majority of the money comes from abroad, given as legal charitable contributions , he said.
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These include the treatment of capital transfers, of charitable contributions , and of capital gains arising from interest rate changes.
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Document the costs and benefits of participating in school-to-work, rather than treating it solely as a charitable contribution .
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The next obstacle is just as tough: the $ 24 billion annual tax savings for charitable contributions .
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But they also reward or punish behavior: The deduction for charitable contributions underwrites generosity.
donation
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The website also sets out the reliefs available for charitable donations .
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Currently individuals can take a tax deduction of 20 to 40 percent for charitable donations .
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In short, a lot was done to increase the level of charitable donations from individuals in the 1980s.
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Silver said, referring to the write-off that the owners can claim because the car is a charitable donation .
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We are making arrangements with Forces charities for gifts to be treated as charitable donations .
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To what extent does its dependence on charitable donations make it an involuntary party in the game of denial?
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Having given away all her money in Rome, she begged her food, or existed on charitable donations .
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The second beneficiary, the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service, relies totally on charitable donations for its desperately-needed equipment.
foundation
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The remote origins of Emanuel School lay in the sixteenth century and a small charitable foundation for the elderly and the young.
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She was now executive director of a large charitable foundation .
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The Halls are appealing to charitable foundations , businesses, corporations and local people for further support.
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After his death in 1998, the money continued to flow from Botnar's estate and charitable foundations .
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Charity commissioners admit they have been in lengthy discussions with Jansen's solicitors about her position with the charitable foundation .
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These submerged classes survived on the charitable foundations of the past: Madrid convents provided 30,000 bowls of soup daily.
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When government cash was withdrawn they applied to several charitable foundations for funding.
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Set up last century by charitable foundations to support local cultural activities and to combat usury, they have become big business.
gift
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The maximum limit on single charitable gifts qualifying for Income and Corporation Tax relief has been abolished.
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In 1925, when Kellogg was sixty-five years old, he established the Fellowship Corporation to distribute charitable gifts anonymously.
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Unlike Forbes, Gramm and Buchanan favor retaining the home-mortgage deduction and the deduction for charitable gifts .
institution
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When he died he left the land to the Drapers Company - a charitable institution for residents of East London.
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After being washed in the river the clothes were then distributed to charitable institutions .
organisation
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The charitable organisation , the trust I am talking about happens to have four Eastern Board managers running the show.
organisations
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Our other work includes press and publicity training for community groups and charitable organisations .
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Members played a large part in their local communities working with the many charitable organisations .
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Via work in charitable organisations and institutions.
organizations
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The children named friends as well as charitable organizations as beneficiaries.
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It would provide a $ 500-per-person tax credit for contributions to charitable organizations that care for the poor.
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In her adopted desert home, Bombeck was very generous, contributing time and money to a number of charitable organizations .
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So did government organizations and major charitable organizations.
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This is a simple rule, and for 40 years the vast majority of charitable organizations have strictly observed the prohibition.
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In both cases, Gingrich turned to charitable organizations as an alternative means of financing the projects.
purpose
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The first playing was dedicated to various charitable purposes .
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The members of the editorial group spontaneously agreed that the royalties should be devoted to spiritual and charitable purposes .
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However, in the 1988 Budget the Chancellor abolished the tax relief on all inter-personal covenants except those made for charitable purposes .
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Beneath the third was a vast treasure which the emperor then used for charitable purposes .
status
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The draft student charter would allow students to opt out of their associations and would constrain unions within the law on charitable status .
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The Centre is an independent body, with charitable status .
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If we do make a profit, we may lose our charitable status .
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Legacies can also be sought more easily if the organisation can show that it has charitable status .
trust
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And in 9 months, local people raised £600,000 and set up a charitable trust to run the hospital.
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The castle and the estate will be managed by charitable trusts on behalf of the state.
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The Fund has been able to assist with new charitable trusts at Thirlestane and Newliston in Lothian.
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Impasse is funded by Cleveland County Council, charitable trusts and industry.
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Jay was amused by her go-getting energy, especially when Lucy had done battle with yet another charitable trust or foundation.
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Following the death of Edgar Kaufmann the office was dismantled and moved to the headquarters of the family's charitable trust .
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It is run by a charitable trust and so relies on grants and donations for its survival.
work
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My sister Elizabeth does a lot of charitable work in orphanages.
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His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner.
works
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He believes that the financial support companies give to charitable works can, and should, be quantified.
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The framework remained, the ordered cycle of worship and the charitable works , though much diminished.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's one of many excellent charitable organizations that work with the poor in the city.
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Johnson was not so charitable in calling the commission's decision "irresponsible."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For secondary care there is a mix of public, private, and charitable hospitals.
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If Glynn had wanted a cover for visits to his woman friend, his charitable trips to St Ives served him well.
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In her adopted desert home, Bombeck was very generous, contributing time and money to a number of charitable organizations.
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The remote origins of Emanuel School lay in the sixteenth century and a small charitable foundation for the elderly and the young.
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Those include the deductibility of charitable contributions, education expenses, interest and medical expenses.
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When he died he left the land to the Drapers Company - a charitable institution for residents of East London.