private charity

collocation in English

meaningsofprivateandcharity

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private
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.vət/us
/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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charity
noun
uk
/ˈtʃær.ə.ti/us
/ˈtʃer.ə.t̬i/
an organization whose purpose is to give money, food, or help to those who need it, or to carry out activities such as medical research that will help people in need, and not to make ...
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(Definition ofprivateandcharityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprivate charity

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Sometimes the existence ofprivatecharityenabled parishes to delay using the rates for casual relief, or at least helped to meet this need.
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However,privatecharitywas never equal to the task of preventing famine.
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Privatecharity, it seems, may cope with a short crisis, but not a prolonged one.
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While men focused on property rights and traditionalprivatecharity, women called for a massive public response to equal the magnitude of the disaster.
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Much depended, of course, uponprivatecharity.
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But it had become clear to more and more people that the church andprivatecharitycould no longer pretend to be sufficient to the task.
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It is quite clear that a very small allowance must mean in some cases, whereprivatecharityis not available, support from the rates.
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Will the patients charter be guaranteed by public funds or is it to depend in future onprivatecharity?
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In other words, this scheme emancipates voluntary workers from the indignity of having to collect money byprivatecharity.
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They have not followed the suggestion that the matter should be left toprivatecharityor private enterprise.
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I wish that every one of them could be saved, but how can that be done byprivatecharity?
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In a question like this, why should we depend onprivatecharity?
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The problem is much too big forprivatecharityto cope with.
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It is nonsense to think that this question can be dealt with in the poorer areas byprivatecharity.
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I do not think it would be desirable to use it as a means of raising contributions for aprivatecharityhowever worthy the cause.
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When some of these women get into difficulties they have to borrow, and if they cannot borrow they have to go toprivatecharity.
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It seems quite absurd that there should be this gap betweenprivatecharityand—using the word in no derogatory sense—public charity.
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It is better to leave people with a reasonable proportion of their earnings and to allowprivatecharityto operate.
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Privatecharityhas been inadequate and loans from friends have now largely come to an end.
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I asked him about their visiting arrangements and told him that ours depended to a high degree onprivatecharity.
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