Subsidy

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ˈsÊŒbsɨdi/

Origin

From Latin subsidium, from subsidere ("subsidize").

Full definition of subsidy

Noun

1. Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
   Manufacturing firms are supported by government subsidies in some countries.
• 2013-08-10, Lexington, Keeping the mighty honest, 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

• tax

Related terms

• subsidize