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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 welfareplay

  Familiarity information: COMMUNITY CHEST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMMUNITY CHEST (noun)


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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