civil list

1. 1.

   a sum of money voted by British Parliament each year for the expenses of the British royal family

   Broaderbudget

   United Kingdom

Questions about civil list

What does civil list mean?

civil list means "a sum of money voted by British Parliament each year for the expenses of the British royal family".

Is civil list a common word?

civil list is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.