Subsidy
['sʌbsɪdɪ] or ['sʌbsədi]
Definition
(noun.) a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public; 'a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence'.
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Definition
(n.) Support; aid; cooperation; 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 cooperation 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; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pecuniary aid (granted by one government to another).
Checker: Noelle
Definition
n. assistance: aid in money: a sum of money paid by one state to another for assistance in war.—adv. Subsid′iarily.—adj. Subsid′iary furnishing a subsidy help or additional supplies: aiding.—n. one who or that which aids or supplies: an assistant.—v.t. Sub′sidīse to furnish with a subsidy grant or regular allowance: to purchase the aid of to buy over.—Subsidiary troops mercenaries.
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Examples
- Even the subsidy by rulers of privately conducted schools must be carefully safeguarded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The old subsidy was imposed indifferently upon exportation, as well as importation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Upon the exportation of the greater part of commodities to other countries, half the old subsidy was drawn back. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This statute leaves them subject to all the old duties which had ever been imposed upon them, the old subsidy, and one per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The one-third and the two-third subsidy made up between them another five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The subsidy of poundage having continued for so long a time at one shilling in the pound, or at five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To the gathering of notables, a summoned assembly of leading men, Calonne propounded a scheme for a subsidy to be levied upon all landed property. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The duties which have been imposed since the old subsidy, are, the greater part of them, wholly drawn back upon exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Wool was commonly paid as a subsidy to the king, and its valuation in that subsidy ascertains, at least in some degree, what was its ordinary price. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Not only half the old subsidy, but the second twenty-five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For these reasons, the project of a tax upon shops was laid aside, and in the room of it was substituted the subsidy, 1759. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- French goods have never been omitted in any of those general subsidies or duties of five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Norton