Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Money paid to the captors of a ship or place where booty has been obtained, in certain proportions according to rank, the money divided being realized from the sale of the prize or booty.
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Examples
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While the competitor racks up money through five rounds of game play with Harrison, Brooke Burns is standing by with the prize-money recipient's friends and family for the reveal.
Chris Harrison Says New Game Show You Deserve It Isn't About the Money 2011
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Last Thursday, as Dettori explains, They fined me £290 for his refusal to ride Diamond Vision at Newbury this month in a race that failed to reach the prize-money tariff set by the Horseman's Group.
Why Frankie Dettori is more focused on the 2011 Oaks than the Derby 2011
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We had already announced what we would be putting into prize-money in 2011 but this £2.7m represents an extra bit on top of that.
Jockey Club turn profit of £8.6m and tip £2.7m back into prize money 2011
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Stephen Higgins, Newbury's managing director, held out little hope that the track will be able to meet the prize-money demand of the Horsemen's Group.
Godolphin will boycott Lockinge if Newbury fails to raise prize money 2011
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The reality, though, is that the "many reasons" do not go beyond prize-money "on occasions", but every day of the year, and at every level of the sport.
Humiliating climbdown surely spells apocalypse for Horsemen's tariff 2011
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No racing has taken place in the country since the start of the year after strikes were called by all sectors of the sport in protest at dramatic cuts to the prize-money budget and funding for racecourses.
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Tariffs – the blunt and, at times, incoherent mechanism with which the Horsemen's Group is currently trying to impose minimum prize-money levels on racecourses – can be seen as a dress rehearsal for the task of balancing the complexities inherent in compiling a fixture list and race programme that is serviceable for all interested parties.
Ripping responsibility from the BHA is wilful vandalism | Lydia Hislop 2011
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To be reduced to the rank of ordinary seaman; to be debarred all prize-money due him; to forfeit all rights to pension; to resign the Victoria Cross; to be discharged from the navy with a good character (this being his first offence); to receive fifty lashes; and to serve two years in prison.
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At the Qipco Champions Day, with so much serious prize-money on offer, and a magnificent horse like Frankel running like a dream, Fallon's withering assessment might sound strange.
Kieren Fallon: 'You expect me to count how many times I hit a horse?' 2011
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We had already announced what we would be putting into prize-money in 2011 but this £2.7m represents an extra bit on top of that.
Jockey Club turn profit of £8.6m and tip £2.7m back into prize money 2011
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