conscience money

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence. idiomatic,uncountable
    — The Secretary of the Treasury is almost daily in receipt of installments of conscience-money, which the perturbed moral sense of a guilty office-holder or other defrauder of the government suggests the payment of in order to obtain "a still and quiet conscience."

词形变化

conscience-money alternative
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