[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/charity.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / charity

[← C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/C/)

# charity

«charity» in Mova's school dictionary: **an organisation that collects money and help for people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (charity, charities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A charity is an organisation that collects money and help for people or animals in need. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#m1)

2) Charity is giving money, food or help to people who need it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#m2)

3) Charity can mean kindness in judging other people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school life pupils raise money for charity with cake sales, fun runs, dressing-up days and sponsored events. In PSHE lessons charity means caring for others. In maths pupils total money raised for charity. Phrases: for charity, give to charity, charity shop, charity event, raise money for charity.

### examples

- We raised fifty pounds for charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#x1)
- Our school held a fun run for charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#x2)
- She gives old toys to the charity shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#x3)
- The charity helps homeless dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#x4)
- Lots of charities help after floods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#x5)
- He did a sponsored walk for a children's charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#x6)
- Charity begins at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#x7)
- It's pure charity that she is here at all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/#x8)

### note

Plural: charities (y becomes ies). Countable as an organisation (two charities), uncountable as giving (give to charity). «Charity shop» is British; in the USA it is a «thrift store». Safety: real charities are registered — be careful of strangers collecting money.

### In the corpora

- [Debt advice charities give free, private help to make a plan for paying debts back at a pace the family can manage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/21/)
- [A food bank is a charity that gives free food parcels, usually after a referral from someone like a school or a doctor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/17/)
- [When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/5/)
- [A charity is an organisation that helps people, animals or the environment, paid for by money the public gives.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/16/)
- [Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someone completes a challenge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «charity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/charity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.