subsidy

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman subsidie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French subside, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin subsidium, from subsidere (“to settle down, stay, remain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌbsɨdi/

Noun

subsidy (countable and uncountable, plural subsidies)

1. Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

   Manufacturing firms are supported by government subsidies in some countries.

   • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

2. (dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.

Antonyms

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• tax

Related terms

• subsidize

Translations

financial support

• Albanian: subvencion (sq) m
• Arabic: إِعَانَة مَالِيَّة f (ʔiʕāna(t) māliyya)
• Armenian: նպաստ (hy) (npast), սուբսիդիա (hy) (subsidia)
• Catalan: subsidi m, subvenció (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 津貼／津贴 (zh) (jīntiē), 津贴 (zh) (jīntiē), 補貼／补贴 (zh) (bǔtiē), 补贴 (zh) (bǔtiē), 補助／补助 (zh) (bǔzhù), 补助 (zh) (bǔzhù)

• Czech: subvence (cs) f, podpora (cs) f
• Dutch: subsidie (nl) f
• Finnish: avustus (fi), apu (fi), subventio (fi), tuki (fi); valtionapu (fi) (state subsidy)
• French: subvention (fr), subside (fr)
• Galician: subsidio m
• German: Subvention (de) f, Unterstützung (de) f, Subsidium (de) n
• Ido: subvenciono (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 援助 (ja) (えんじょ, enjo), 補助 (ja) (ほじょ, hojo)
• Latvian: subsīdija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: subsidija (lt) f
• Malay: subsidi
• Maori: moni āwhina
• Persian: سوبسید (fa) (subsid)
• Polish: subwencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: subsídio (pt) m
• Russian: субси́дия (ru) f (subsídija)
• Spanish: subvención (es) f, subsidio (es) m
• Swedish: subvention (sv)
• Tagalog: tulong
• Telugu: రాయితీ (te) (rāyitī)