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adjective

philanthropic

CEFR C2

seeking to promote the welfare of others; generous and benevolent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with philanthropic, each labelled with its topic.

  • A philanthropic trust paid for the new children's wing, asking only that admission stay free on weekday afternoons.

    Architecture

  • The guard's philanthropic streak shows every summer, when he pays for camps and shoes for four hundred neighborhood kids.

    Basketball

  • Philanthropic donors funded the mountain footbridge, so villagers no longer walk nine extra miles to reach the market town.

    Travel

  • The company's philanthropic arm matches every employee donation and gives each worker two paid days a year to volunteer.

    Business

  • A philanthropic railway owner built a village for his workers in 1850, with a school, a park, and a free clinic.

    History

  • A philanthropic foundation pays for the mobile eye clinic that visits twelve villages each month at no charge.

    Medicine

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