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COMMUNITY CHEST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does community chest mean?
• COMMUNITY CHEST (noun)
The noun COMMUNITY CHEST has 1 sense:
1. a charity supported by individual subscriptions; defrays the demands on a community for social welfare
Familiarity information: COMMUNITY CHEST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A charity supported by individual subscriptions; defrays the demands on a community for social welfare
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("community chest" is a kind of...):
charity (an institution set up to provide help to the needy)
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