FOREIGN AID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreign aid mean? 

• FOREIGN AID (noun)
  The noun FOREIGN AID has 1 sense:

1. aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another

  Familiarity information: FOREIGN AID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREIGN AID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("foreign aid" is a kind of...):

aid; assistance; economic aid; economic assistance; financial aid; financial assistance (gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

European Recovery Program; Marshall Plan (a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952); named after George Marshall)