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foreign aid

n. aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another

Usage examples of "foreign aid".

Such punishments could include denying the country all assistance by international financial institutions, prohibiting all foreign aid or investment, or, at the most extreme, prohibiting all trade with the country for a period of six, twelve, or twenty-four months.

But if they are not assured of this, it would be certainly unwise, by trying the event of another campaign, to risk our accepting a foreign aid, which, perhaps, may not be attainable, but on condition of everlasting avulsion from Great Britain.

And as the tax base of the West stagnates and populations climb (though more slowly) in the third world, foreign aid will make even less of a difference in coming decades.

By his mother's advice, and in the hope of foreign aid, he abjured the rights both of the church and state.

It would be absurd to attempt to defend yourself alone: to give your cause the least chance of success you must call in foreign aid.

When the famine began in 1995, Kim refused to allow foreign aid workers free access to the countryside, and had some food aid diverted to the army.