Food
Kostgeld is known in the economic history of a fee for the tasting, which a staff member as in advance deduction from pay will be paid. The Oeconomic Encyclopedia von Krünitz describes the food money as “the money that is paid for food, i.e. maintenance, for a certain period of time. Such is z. B. the servants-food-money, since one tends to give servants of beyderley sex, instead of the food, weekly or monthly a certain food-money ".
If boarding is provided free of charge, one speaks of free food , if a place to sleep / live is included, of free board and lodging .
From Kostgeld today we speak in particular of the amounts required to pay the young people with their own income to their parents. You should contribute to the cost of board and lodging.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Economic Encyclopedia: Kost-Geld
- ↑ What does "Hotel Mama" cost for young people with their own income?