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subsidy

/ˈsʌbsɪdi/

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What does subsidy mean?

noun

  1. Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.

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The duties which have been imposed since the old subsidy, are, the greater part of them, wholly drawn back upon exportation.
Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300
While Bavaria and the League were thus arming in the Emperor's cause, negotiations for a subsidy were opened with the Spanish court.
Friedrich SchillerThe History of the Thirty Years' WarTranslated by A. J. W. (Alexander James William) MorrisonProject Gutenberg ebook #566
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The annual $4 billion Soviet subsidy, a main prop to Cuba's threadbare economy, may be cut in view of the USSR's mounting economic problems.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1990 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #14
Nothing else material has happened, but Mr. Pitt's having moved for a German subsidy, which is another matter of triumph to the late ministry.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610
American agricultural science is motivated by agribusiness, either by direct subsidy or indirectly through government because our government is often strongly influenced by major economic interests.
Steve SolomonOrganic Gardener's CompostingProject Gutenberg ebook #4342