food drive
A charity event dedicated to collecting food for the needy, especially to assist their…A charity event dedicated to collecting food for the needy, especially to assist their ability to hold a feast on a holiday such as Christmas or Thanksgiving.
» The school hosted a food drive at the hockey game to support the community.
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1 sensesA charity event dedicated to collecting food for the needy, especially to assist their ability to hold a feast on a holiday such as Christmas or Thanksgiving.
Examples
2 sentencesThe school hosted a food drive at the hockey game to support the community.
A grouping of local businesses held a canned food drive for the homeless this past Saturday.
Forms
plural: food drives| Singular | food drive |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.