act of charity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofactandcharity
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act
noun
uk/ækt/us/ækt/
something that ...
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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 ofactandcharityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofact of charity
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After taking our land they gave us patches of it as in anactofcharity, only to dominate us.
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In so arguing, he reasserted the tradition of the possible correction of superiors by virtue of a non-coerciveactofcharity.
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Clearly, theactofcharityof a poor man and a rich man must differ; $100 from each does not represent the same altruistic act.
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The message that receiving social security is a right and not anactofcharityhas been put across successfully.
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Such people do not seek anactofcharity; they seek the community rights of the society that we used to enjoy.
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No great terror would be introduced into the legislative heart by a smallactofcharityof that kind.
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Below cost sales is not anactofcharity, but the taking over of a market share, which will have to be compensated elsewhere.
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Send him as a refugee or exile or alien to some other country that might be induced to receive him as anactofcharity?
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The author of the amendment clearly believe that taxpayers' money should be spent as anactofcharitytowards the platform construction firms.
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We are not doing it in any sense as anactofcharity.
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But to pretend that this is anactofcharity, or that in the long run it will do good.
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I do not regard it as a greatactofcharityto divide two years' price increases by two to get the annual figure.
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I want these loans to be considered by the general public not as anactofcharitybut as a sound economic investment in the interests of the community.
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One should not assume that, when organisations take measures to assist the disabled, they do so as anactofcharity; it is often in their own enlightened self-interest.
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She had continued to charge that rent because her friend was very poor, and had done so as anactofcharityto an old friend.
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I ask you, as anactofcharity, to put my case before the proper authority, or to render me any assistance that lies in your power.
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If we can do something this morning to meet the case of one of these little groups, we shall have done not someactofcharitybut our duty.
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One was the angle that nothing but anactofcharitywas called for, and the other was that an act of right ought to be done.
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But it is not involved in road or rail building or anything else as anactofcharity, despite being presented to us sometimes under that guise.
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