civil list
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Noun
[edit]civil list (plural civil lists)
- A list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government, originally for expenses supporting the monarch.
- 2018, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal:
- The recession also affected the textile industry and in 1868 urban protests forced the government to reduce taxation and cut the royal family's civil list.