v. To assist someone or something by granting a subsidy.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v. To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To furnish with a subsidy; purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; hence, in recent use, to secure the coöperation of by bribing; buy over. Also spelled subsidise.
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v. secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces
v. support through subsidies
Word Usage
"With universal service, we city-dwellers once again subsidize the cost for those proudly libertarian anti-government types out in the sticks."