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noun, plural -dies.

a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like.

a sum paid, often in accordance with a treaty, by one government to another to secure some service in return.

a grant or contribution of money.

money formerly granted by the English Parliament to the crown for special needs.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English subsidie < Anglo-French < Latin subsidium auxiliary force, reserve, help, equivalent to sub- sub- + sid-, combining form of sedēre to sit¹ + -ium -ium

Related forms

an·ti·sub·si·dy, noun, plural -dies.

non·sub·si·dy, noun, plural -dies.

Synonyms
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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Critics say that farm subsidies today have little to do with helping struggling family farmers.

The money was to come from eliminating public subsidies to for-profit banks that made student loans.

Governments should end subsidies to renewable energies and let consumers determine winners and losers.

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Critics say that farm subsidies today have little to do with helping struggling family farmers.

The money was to come from eliminating public subsidies to for-profit banks that made student loans.

Governments should end subsidies to renewable energies and let consumers determine winners and losers.

Best of all, the government subsidies made it significantly cheaper.

The same is absolutely true for sugar subsidies by the way.

They support their families on government subsidies.

The president also repeats his call to end subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.

But closing the loophole, lawmakers determined, also denied subsidies to disabled students.

The truth about federal energy subsidies, including federal subsidies for ethanol, is that they have to be phased out.

Putting a solar array on the roof will pay for itself within a few years, even without subsidies.

It serves its speakers well without any state subsidies or belonging to any state or group of states.

Governments should be far more selective about which biofuel crops they support through subsidies and tax benefits.

Rich countries are under pressure to end their farm subsidies.

The government was stupid enough to grant subsidies and now there are redundant ethanol plants all around the midwest.

Worse, this doesn't factor in tax payer subsidies to produce ethanol.

But subsidies are not the best way to achieve that goal.

Hundreds of billions on subsidies and research and development.

Apple's trouble with the larger map is the absence of carrier subsidies.

Thereafter it should be possible to find a compromise on how to limit such subsidies.

Let's demand the subsidies stop and see what happens.

The stakes are high because the project means jobs, government subsidies and prestige.

Subsidies are more popular but both theory and practice argue against them.

Spain voted billions in subsides for wind and solar power subsidies.

Research labs could compete to win the prizes these subsidies create, investing their own money in the hope of later rewards.

Getting to sustainable cities is as much about stopping subsidies of unsustainable practices as about anything.

Computer world says it'll never happen without regulation or subsidies.

Do away with useless subsidies to corn growers for the biofuels industry and level the playing field.

Plaintiffs want subsidies to cover medical costs for emphysema and chronic bronchitis as well.

So think again about getting rid of highway subsidies.

Oil subsidies are misguided and mainly benefit energy- intensive industries and the well-off.

On top of that are the billions government provides in subsidies to farmers and tax breaks for homeowners and business.

The cuts in subsidies will add significantly to inflation in these countries, depending on the extent to which subsidies are cut.

As the government struggles to come up with spending cuts and revenues, housing subsidies are an obvious place to look.

Taxpayer subsidies per student are dramatically lower at the for-profits, even after student loans are taken into account.

Fly foreign and independent and you can reap the benefits of government subsidies and sound business sense.

Such as government subsidies for renewable energy and large scale recycling.

Opposition to federal subsidies for all kinds of energy spans the ideological spectrum.

The savings from eliminating the subsidies paid to banks would be used to expand aid to colleges and students.

Due to heavy government subsidies through its military sector.

The ability to run without any subsidies from the now discredited carbon sequestration/cap and trade/carbon tax boondoggles.

Munich doesn't hand out generous government subsidies to lure high-tech firms, for one thing.

Congress should renew tax subsidies for wind, solar and geothermal energy, but end tax breaks for corn ethanol.

What's more, some current iPhone users who wanted to upgrade wouldn't get the subsidies that new customers.

Shortly after a bipartisan group of senators circulated a letter calling for an end to federal ethanol subsidies and tariffs.

Perhaps universities could offer rental subsidies for secondhand dealers.

They can discourage the use of chemical fertilizer by cutting down on subsidies.

Instead, it should try to create as fertile a marketplace as possible, while ending subsidies to dirty technologies.

Government subsidies for film and television productions proliferated in flush times as more.

The government subsidies create huge incentives for for-profit colleges to enroll anyone they can find.

Critics of wage subsidies usually cite two drawbacks: they distort incentives and they are expensive.

Our electricity is also taxed to pay the large subsidies to both the wind energy providers and nuclear power industry.

The health of people who received rent subsidies but did not move showed no significant improvement.

The sense of crisis is compounded by the proposed phasing out of fuel subsidies.

Last year, however, solar ran up against political scrutiny of lavish public subsidies.

Wind and solar cannot compete and thus will only be built with government subsidies.

Garmin might sell them unlocked, but will certainly aim for subsidies to take the bite out of what's going to be a chunky tag:.

But in countries with subsidies, it is rising faster than normal, and fastest of all in the countries with the highest subsidies.

And government subsidies keep the turbines spinning relentlessly whether they are needed or not.

Instead, an independent body will be established to come up with a formula for setting the level of subsidies.

Subsidies are a good way to obtain renewable energy.

The first step is to eliminate the pervasive subsidies that create artificially low prices for water in so many countries.

Current subsidies for electric vehicles are an inefficient means of abating climate change.

Result: negligible private investment despite billions in government subsidies.

They are all utterly dependent on government subsidies.

Such engineering giants have the resources to negotiate the complex, over-regulated system of state subsidies for training.

If the subsidies were cut, gossypium might be elbowed out of the limelight at last.

Government subsidies for wind are justified to achieve a diversity of clean energy sources.

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Word Origin & History

subsidy

late 14c., 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

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or alliance." Meaning "to support by grants of money" is from 1828.

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American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

subsidy definition

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.

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