ralph bucks
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A one-time payment of $400 paid to Albertans in 2006 to commemorate a 2005 provincial budget surplus.
Canadian usage
Example Sentences
- "The Tories have basically treated oil and gas revenues as their own private slush fund. When they need votes, they buy them. The $1.3 billion in "Ralph Bucks" dished out in 2005 to Albertans in $400 cheques is only the latest example."
- "The so-called Ralph bucks, named for then-premier Ralph Klein, though much derided by critics as an attempt to buy the electorate with their own money, could also be read as a populist attempt to include the population in the windfall profits the government was then reaping from the sale of oil leases and royalties."