donations
- 1Plural of donation.
Charitable donations rose sharply during the holiday season.
The museum funds its exhibitions through private donations and grants.
Note
A regular plural made with -s, and it mostly carries the "gift" meaning of donation: money or goods given to a cause, counted one by one. In fundraising and accounting the plural often means the combined total from many givers, as in charitable donations or private donations, rather than single acts of giving. The sense of the act itself, a grant or bestowal, is more often left in the singular.
donations is a form of donation
donation, noun: A voluntary gift of money or goods given to support a particular person, organization, or cause. Full entry
- Forms
- donationdonations plural
- Spelling
- donation → donations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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