CONSCIENCE MONEY Definition & Meaning

conscience money

money paid, often anonymously, to relieve one's conscience, as for an obligation previously evaded or a wrong done.

conscience money

money paid voluntarily to compensate for dishonesty, esp money paid voluntarily for taxes formerly evaded

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First recorded in 1840–50

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President Ulysses S. Grant would later declare it "conscience money."

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To a certain extent this was what we should now call "conscience money."

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And the conscience money is going to help out.

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Yes, and I sent conscience money too upon one occasion.

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He said it was conscience money and not to be talked about.

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