subsidy
UK/ˈsʌbsɪdi/
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Australia/ˈsɐbsɪdi/
subsidy noun: financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
Noun
subsidy (countable and uncountable, plural subsidies)
- Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
- Manufacturing firms are supported by government subsidies in some countries.
- 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.2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
- Antonyms:
- tax
- Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
subsidy meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
subsidy in Tamil
- மானியம்
subsidy in Bengali
- ভর্তুকি, আর্থিক অনুদান
subsidy in Telugu
- financial support
- రాయితీ rāyitī
subsidy in Malayalam
- ദ്രവ്യസഹായം, സഹായധനം, കരം, നികുതി
More languagesFewer languages
- subsidy in Kannada
- ಕೊಡುಗೆ, ಬಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಡುಗೆ, ಸಹಾಯಧನ, ಸಹಾಯ ದ್ರವ್ಯ
- subsidy in Tagalog
- tulong
- subsidy in Arabic
- إِعَانَة مَالِيَّة
- subsidy in Malay
- subsidi
- subsidy in Persian
- سوبسید subsid, یارانه yârâne
- subsidy in Vietnamese
- trợ cấp
Examples of subsidy in a sentence
- There has been a cutback in federal subsidies. Rates have been increasing too.
- The Senator claims to be laissez faire, but he voted in favor of the subsidies.
- The study goes to the point I was making earlier about subsidies.
Antonyms of subsidy
Forms of subsidy
| plural | subsidies |
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Origin of subsidy
From Middle English subsidy, subsidie, from Anglo-Norman subsidee, subsidie, from Old French subside, from Latin subsidium (support, assistance), from subsido from sub- (“below”) + sīdō (“sit”).
Words formed from subsidy
Phrases with subsidy
Questions about subsidy
- What does subsidy mean?
- Subsidy means financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
- What is subsidy in Tamil?
- Subsidy in Tamil is மானியம். See Subsidy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is subsidy?
- Subsidy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce subsidy?
- Subsidy is pronounced /ˈsʌbsɪdi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of subsidy?
- The plural of subsidy is subsidies.
Words near subsidy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: subsidy (page history and authors); subsidy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subsidy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subsidy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subsidy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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