SUBSIDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subsidy mean? 

• SUBSIDY (noun)
  The noun SUBSIDY has 1 sense:

1. a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public

  Familiarity information: SUBSIDY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSIDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence

Hypernyms ("subsidy" is a kind of...):

grant (any monetary aid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subsidy"):

subvention (grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution)

price support (a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level)

Derivation:

subsidise; subsidize (support through subsidies)

 Context examples 

In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them being admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a proportionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:—for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)