Brewer's: Civil Service Estimates

(The), C.S.E. The annual Parliamentary grant to cover the expenses of the diplomatic services, the post-office and telegraphs, the grant for national education, the collection of the revenue, and other expenses neither pertaining to the Sovereign, the army, nor the navy.

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Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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