GIVEthe practice of giving money and help to people who are poor or in trouble 慈善行为
Examples from the Corpus
philanthropy• All that development and philanthropydisguised hard commercial policies.• A minority or Liberals attacked the principle of state welfare, arguing that the state should rather encourageself-help and philanthropy.• And I began to discover that his philanthropy was no longer casual now, but constant and systematic.• The myth of philanthropy is quickly discredited by a realistic look at how older people lead their lives.• If it had been only philanthropy, would it have felt like it did?• Born and raised in San Francisco, the 71-year-old Rosenberg has been preachingphilanthropy his entireadult life.
Originphilanthropy
(1600-1700)Late Latinphilanthropia, from Greek, from phil- ( → PHILANDERER) + anthropos“human being”