NOUN
- a sum of money voted by British Parliament each year for the expenses of the British royal family
How To Use Civil List In A Sentence
- In recognition for her endeavours on behalf of women, she was granted a civil list pension of ￡75 a year in 1913.
- The first monthly payment of the national dotation, calculated to correspond with his civil list, was accepted. The Liberation of Italy
- Apart from the civil list, the palace receives government 'grants-in-aid' for maintenance of the palaces and travel. Times, Sunday Times
- He was conscious of the power of the crown to excite the popular imagination and opposed attempts by some of his colleagues to reduce the civil list: the monarchy was nothing if it was not splendid.
- I'm afraid we're stuck with the royal family, and the best any anti-monarchist can hope for is a gradual eroding of their powers and the amount of money they get from the civil list.
- There were claims in parliament that she wasn't worth a penny of the money the civil list paid her.
- Although public indignation at the burgeoning Civil List led to some drastic pruning, the Royal supernumeraries continued to live high on the hog.
- In recognition for her endeavours on behalf of women, she was granted a civil list pension of ￡75 a year in 1913.