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sub·si·dy    Audio Help   [suhb-si-dee] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -dies.
1.a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like.
2.a sum paid, often in accordance with a treaty, by one government to another to secure some service in return.
3.a grant or contribution of money.
4.money formerly granted by the English Parliament to the crown for special needs.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME subsidie < AF < L subsidium auxiliary force, reserve, help, equiv. to sub- sub- + sid-, comb. form of sedére to sit1 + -ium -ium]

1. Subsidy, subvention are both grants of money, especially governmental, to aid private undertakings. A subsidy is usually given to promote commercial enterprise: a subsidy to manufacturers during a war. A subvention is usually a grant to stimulate enterprises connected with science and the arts: a subvention to a research chemist by a major company.
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sub·si·dy    Audio Help   (sŭb'sĭ-dē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. sub·si·dies
  1. Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest.
  2. Financial assistance given by one person or government to another.
  3. Money formerly granted to the British Crown by Parliament.


[Middle English subsidie, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin subsidium, support : sub-, behind, beneath; see sub- + sedēre, to sit; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]

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subsidy 
c.1380, from Anglo-Fr. subsidie, from O.Fr. subside "help, aid, contribution," from L. subsidium "help, aid, assistance, (military) reinforcements," from sub "behind, near" + sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Subsidize is from 1795. Originally of nations, "to buy neutrality or alliance." Meaning "to support by grants of money" is from 1828.

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subsidy

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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subsidy [ˈsabsidi] nounplural ˈsubsidies
(a sum of) money paid by a government etc to an industry etc that needs help, or to farmers etc to keep the price of their products low
Arabic: إعانَه مالِيَّه
Chinese (Simplified): 政府津贴
Chinese (Traditional): 政府津貼
Czech: subvence
Danish: statsstøtte
Dutch: subsidie
Estonian: riigitoetus, abiraha
Finnish: tuki, valtionapu
French: subvention
German: die Subvention
Greek: επιδότηση, επιχορήγηση
Hungarian: szubvenció
Icelandic: obinber fjárstyrkur
Indonesian: subsidi
Italian: sussidio, sovvenzione
Japanese: 助成金
Latvian: subsīdija, dotācija
Lithuanian: subsidija, dotacija
Norwegian: statsstøtte, subsidier
Polish: subwencja, dotacja
Portuguese (Brazil): subsídio
Portuguese (Portugal): subsídio
Romanian: sub­venţie
Russian: субсидия
Slovak: subvencia
Slovenian: subvencija
Spanish: subsidio, subvención
Swedish: subvention, bidrag
Turkish: tahsisat
See also: subsidize, subsidise

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subsidy

A grant made by a government to some individual or business in order to maintain an acceptable standard of living or to stimulate economic growth.


[Chapter:] Business and Economics


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Subsidy

Sit\, v. i. [imp. Sat(Sate, archaic); p. p. Sat (Sitten, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Sitting.] [OE. sitten, AS. sittan; akin to OS. sittian, OFries. sitta, D. zitten, G. sitzen, OHG. sizzen, Icel. sitja, SW. sitta, Dan. sidde, Goth. sitan, Russ. sidiete, L. sedere, Gr. ???, Skr. sad. [root]154. Cf. Assess,Assize, Cathedral, Chair, Dissident, Excise, Insidious, Possess, Reside, Sanhedrim, Seance, Seat, n., Sedate, 4th Sell, Siege, Session, Set, v. t., Sizar, Size, Subsidy.]

1. To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.

And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat. --Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.)

I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. --Shak.

2. To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.

3. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.

And Moses said to . . . the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here? --Num. xxxii. 6.

Like a demigod here sit I in the sky. --Shak.

4. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.

The calamity sits heavy on us. --Jer. Taylor.

5. To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.

This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. --Shak.

6. To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

7. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. --Jer. xvii. 11.

8. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.

Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. --Selden.

Sits the wind in that quarter? --Sir W. Scott.

9. To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.

10. To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.

11. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.

To sit at, to rest under; to be subject to. [Obs.] "A farmer can not husband his ground so well if he sit at a great rent". --Bacon.

To sit at meat or at table, to be at table for eating.

To sit down. (a) To place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down when tired. (b) To begin a siege; as, the enemy sat down before the town. (c) To settle; to fix a permanent abode. --Spenser. (d) To rest; to cease as satisfied. "Here we can not sit down, but still proceed in our search." --Rogers.

To sit for a fellowship, to offer one's self for examination with a view to obtaining a fellowship. [Eng. Univ.]

To sit out. (a) To be without engagement or employment. [Obs.] --Bp. Sanderson. (b) To outstay.

To sit under, to be under the instruction or ministrations of; as, to sit under a preacher; to sit under good preaching.

To sit up, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from sleep; to sit with the body upright; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person. "He that was dead sat up, and began to speak." --Luke vii. 15.
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