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economic aid

n. a gift of money to support a worthy person or cause [syn: aid]

Usage examples of "economic aid".

Saddam also demanded an Arab summit to compel the GCC states to forgive Iraq's war debts and provide it with $30 billion in economic aid.

We need grants and economic aid packages designed to guarantee recovery for hard-hit businesses.

Age thirty-two, employed in the Economic Aid Mission,* nationality American.

With a fraction of the military and economic aid that had been given to the war by the Johnson administration, Nixon kept the Communist North Vietnamese at bay and protected freedom in South Vietnam by relentlessly bombing the North.

Then we give them a further eight hundred fifty million in economic aid.

But Papandreou chose an awkward time for his largess: not long after the last of the $10 billion in American economic aid from the Truman Doctrine had run out.

The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on economic aid to African nations, chaired by Frederick Daggat, opened to a half-empty conference chamber and a platoon of bored reporters.