Charity Money People ˈtʃærəti Live Helping Give Noun

• a registered charity
• the uk's largest children's charity
• many charities sent money to help the victims of the famine.
• the concert will raise money for local charities.

charity

1. an organization for helping people in need
• a registered charity
• the UK's largest children's charity
• Many charities sent money to help the victims of the famine.
• The concert will raise money for local charities.
• My parents always supported charities.
• a charity for homeless people
• a charity for earthquake relief in Pakistan

Extra Examples

• She runs a charity for homeless young people.
• a charity for sick children
2. organizations for helping people in need, considered as a group; the money, food, help, etc. that they give
• Most of the runners in the London Marathon are raising money for charity.
• A portion of the proceeds was donated to charity.
• Do you give much to charity?
• a charity event (= organized to get money for charity)
• All the profits go to charity.
• a charity auction/concert/football match
• She does a lot of charity work.
• to live on/off charity (= to live on money which other people give you because you are poor)

Extra Examples

• The school raised a lot of money for charity.
• The school raised over a hundred pounds for charity.
• They are proud people who don't accept charity.
• They have no money and are forced to live on charity.
• He refused to live off charity.
3. kind behaviour and sympathy towards other people, especially when you are judging them
• Her article showed no charity towards her former friends.
• He replied patiently, with more charity than I deserved.
4. you should help and care for your own family, etc. before you start helping other people

Word Origin

• late Old English (in the sense ‘Christian love of one's fellows’): from Old French charite, from Latin caritas, from carus ‘dear’.