sit-down money
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginal people.
Australian usage; Colloquial; Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I have given you examples of some of the reforms we have already put in place which are helping young people, for example, to find jobs instead of getting sit-down money, which they got from Labor."
- "2005 February 21, Australian Broadcasting Commission, The World Today, transcript, A discussion paper being released today canvasses a number of proposals to transform the payments that have become known as ‘sit-down money’."
- "So far be it from wanting sit-down money. More and more Indigenous leaders are telling me that that is what has destroyed their society."
- "2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Café, ReadHowYouWant, Large Print 16pt, page 105, Meanwhile everyone else in your family is unemployed, getting $400 a fortnight unemployment benefit (which the Warlpiri describe as ‘sit-down money’). As soon as your $600 is in your hand, there are eight people who you are obliged to distribute it to, in the same way that you would have to distribute a kangaroo. When they get paid, they also have to share their sit-down money with each of the others."
Usage
Inflected Forms
sit down money (alternative)