ship money

1. 1.

   an impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense

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Questions about ship money

What does ship money mean?

ship money means "an impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense".

Is ship money a common word?

ship money 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.