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cross-subsidies

cross-subsidies is the plural of cross-subsidy.

Meaning of cross-subsidy

Noun

cross-subsidy (plural cross-subsidies)

  1. A subsidy from profit-making operations of a business to support loss-making operations of the same business.
    • The grouping into the Big Four (the Great Western Railway, the London Midland & Scottish Railway, the London & North Eastern Railway, and Southern Railway) came into effect in 1923, and created the largest businesses in Britain. It effectively formalised the concept of cross-subsidy, whereby each...2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 36

Questions about cross-subsidies

What is cross-subsidies the plural of?
Cross-subsidies is the plural of cross-subsidy.

Words near cross-subsidies in the dictionary

  1. cross-stitching
  2. cross-stone
  3. cross-stones
  4. cross-strait
  5. cross-stratification
  6. cross-subsidies
  7. cross-subsidise
  8. cross-subsidised
  9. cross-subsidises
  10. cross-subsidising
  11. cross-subsidize

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