community chest

1. 1.

   a charity supported by individual subscriptions; defrays the demands on a community for social welfare

   Broadercharity

Questions about community chest

What does community chest mean?

community chest means "a charity supported by individual subscriptions; defrays the demands on a community for social welfare".

Is community chest a common word?

community chest 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.