Subsidy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest.
  • n. Financial assistance given by one person or government to another.
  • n. Money formerly granted to the British Crown by Parliament.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. financial support or assistance, such as a grant
  • n. money granted by parliament to the British Crown
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Support; aid; coöperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.
  • n. Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the coöperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.
  • n. A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An aid in money; pecuniary aid.
  • n. Especially— In English history, an aid or tax formerly granted by Parliament to the crown for the urgent occasions of the realm, and levied on every subject of ability according to the value of his lands or goods; a tax levied on a particular occasion.
  • n. A sum paid, often according to treaty, by one government to another, sometimes to secure its neutrality, but more frequently to meet the expenses of carrying on a war.
  • n. Any direct pecuniary aid furnished by the state to private industrial undertakings, or to eleemosynary institutions. Such aid includes bounties on exports, those paid to the owners of ships for running them, and donations of land or money to railroad, manufacturing, theatrical, and other enterprises.
  • n. Synonyms Subsidy, Subvention. In the original and essential meaning of a government grant in aid of a commercial enterprise, these termsare substantially equivalent; but two circumstances lead to some difference in common usage.
  • n. Such grants being rarely, if ever, made in England or the United States except in aid of the mercantile marine, the establishment of lines of transportation, or the like, subsidy is used more commonly than subvention in reference to such enterprises, while, such grants being frequent in France in aid of the drama and the press, etc., the word subvention is used more commonly than subsidy in application to enterprises connected with literature and the arts.
  • n. Writers who oppose all such uses of public funds commonly prefer to characterize them as subsidies, while those who approve of them commonly prefer the term subvention.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public
    • Antonym
    tax   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    grant   
    Hyponym
    subvention    price support   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    grant    tribute    support    aid    coöperation   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pension    expenditure    revenue    appropriation    tax   
     
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