whip-round

English Thesaurus

1. (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	appeal, collection, ingathering, solicitation,
definition	:	request for a sum of money (noun.communication)

domain region	:	britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland,
definition	:	a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom (noun.location)