HOW TO PRONOUNCE
donation
/doʊˈneɪʃən/
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What does donation mean?
noun
- A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.
- The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
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IPA pronunciation
/doʊˈneɪʃən/
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A contract of true love to celebrate, And some donation freely to estate On the blest lovers.
You'd like to make another slight donation to the J. G. H. out of the excess of last month's allowance?
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The donor of the building, however, overcame the difficulty by simply calling his gift a donation of a thousand dollars a year.
“And you object? I had not supposed that clergymen in general--and you in particular--were so sensitive. Have donation parties, then, gone out of date?”
Evidently the combination of box-office receipts with donation parties proved extremely tempting to the thrifty priests, for they now give what might be termed a "continuous performance."