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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subsidize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
heavily
▪ Heavily subsidized government services and centralized labor markets run counter to our history and politics.
■ NOUN
care
▪ Objective: subsidized or free health care for their group.
▪ Parents of large families now get priority housing and school registration and subsidized child care services.
country
▪ The immensely popular company was the only one on the bill, Alvin noted, that was not subsidized by its country.
government
▪ Oil revenue has allowed the government to subsidize housing, gasoline and cars.
▪ If government subsidizes the production of some good, it in effect lowers costs and increases supply.
▪ The government also subsidizes basic goods, including sugar, petroleum and wheat.
▪ Or does the government subsidize the increased costs?
▪ Taxation as a Distortion Suppose the government wishes to subsidize the poor.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many companies subsidize meals for their workers.
▪ Many day care facilities are subsidized by the city.
▪ The city council subsidizes the local orchestra.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cohen said she subsidizes the cost of the newspaper with money she makes writing for Web sites and trade publications.
▪ Eighty-five cents of every dollar spent on irrigation features would be subsidized by power revenues.
▪ He is the nominee of the Reform Party, a secretive organization he invented, subsidizes and controls for his own purposes.
▪ If the government wishes to raise tax revenue in order to subsidize the poor, it should levy a tax on films.
▪ In effect Washington was subsidizing the Wilson government to pursue policies which the latter wished to pursue in any case.
▪ It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizing lame ducks to ease the transition.
▪ Politicians may have qualms about subsidizing profitable businesses owned by multimillionaires.
▪ Underlying the candidates' commuter campaigning is the fact that much of their air travel is subsidized.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subsidize

Subsidize \Sub"si*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subsidized; p. pr. & vb. n. Subsidizing.] [From Subsidy.] To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line.

He employed the remittances from Spain to subsidize a large body of German mercenaries.
--Prescott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subsidize

1755, from subsidy + -ize.\nOriginally "to pay to hire" (mercenaries, foreign troops, etc.), also of nations, "to buy neutrality or alliance." Meaning "to bribe" is from 1815. Meaning "to support by grants of (often government) money" is from 1828. Related: Subsidized; subsidizing.\n\n

Wiktionary
subsidize

vb. (context transitive English) To assist someone or something by granting a subsidy.

WordNet
subsidize

  1. v. support through subsidies; "The arts in Europe are heavily subsidized" [syn: subsidise]

  2. secure the assistence of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces [syn: subsidise]

Usage examples of "subsidize".

They had suggested certain readings, introduced her to mandalic art and mantric music, subsidized a retreat at a Zen monastery, bought her biofeedback equipment, and in general, rather than dismiss her experience and that of her generation as aberrant lunacy, had gently persuaded her that she had, after all, been very young, and that what she had supposed was ultimate Enlightenment had only been her first steps upon the Road that goes ever on.

All of them, subsidized by the Poles, could underbid their competitors.

Firmum Picenum promised money, the Marrucini of northern Adriatic Samnium threatened to strip Marrucine objectors of their property, and hundreds of rich Italian knights subsidized the equipping of troops.

Isabel subsidized feral hippies and the mulatto offspring of her criminal relations and Rachel Ebdus could certainly send Dylan, God help him, to Public School 38 to show his sole white face among that ocean of brown, to air his waterfall of girlish hair among the Afros, if that was what suited her principles.

First World countries subsidize the cost of mining industrial diamonds for the Second and Third Worlds?

Forty grand is peanuts compared to the millions spent to subsidize auto races, tennis tournaments and Super Bowls.

No matter how it was subsidized or reapportioned or provided via scholarship or grant program, the education was expensive, a substantial drain on the Gross Planetary Product.

Most civilized nations compensate for the inadequacy of wages by providing relatively generous public services such as health insurance, free or subsidized child care, subsidized housing, and effective public transportation.

One of the fabricators at Kourou had been buying in launch-vehicle components, not from a duly subsidized plant in some godforsaken corner of Angola or wherever, but from an American company.

The Lipton technically leases part of Crandon, but the tournament remains heavily subsidized with public funds.

Subsidize not the curiosity of the nerds, but what will benefit society.

Must be military specialist hives, subsidized in their niches by council security funds.

Heavily subsidized by tax dollars, both events supposedly still bleed red ink, and each year the promoters come begging for more public money.

Lendl, who retired from the Show and suicided well before the advent of Subsidized Time.

Let them foot some defensive budgets and then try to subsidize their farmers into undercutting NAFTA.