noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
▪ In 1989 direct government expenditure on agricultural and industrial subsidies fell, in dollar terms, by 56% compared with 1988.
▪ This may be the only way of escaping from the temptation of continuing perpetual agricultural subsidy in one guise or another.
▪ State monopolies in the ports, telecommunications and fuel sectors would be abolished and agricultural and industrial subsidies ended.
annual
▪ Further cuts in two stages were substantially to reduce the overall annual business subsidies, which totalled 51,000 million Marks.
direct
▪ A second form of state intervention to promote rural industrialization is the use of direct subsidies to change manufacturers' relative costs.
▪ Even in the prosperous South-East there are demands for direct subsidy and state assistance.
▪ The Minister refused a direct subsidy, but brought pressure on the Central Authority to do something.
federal
▪ They prop up prices for growers by controlling production rather than through federal subsidies.
▪ By me, by others. Federal subsidies are still given to tobacco farmers.
▪ The vote came on an amendment to a sweeping farm bill aimed at weaning farmers from federal subsidies.
▪ They include federal subsidies for the arts, pioneered in New Deal programs for unemployed artists.
▪ States and agencies that violate the new law would risk losing federal subsidies.
▪ Most beneficiaries of federal housing subsidies are wealthy or at least upper middle class.
▪ The price of domestic peanuts is protected through manipulation of the total quota rather than through federal subsidies.
generous
▪ These higher totals were obtained through more generous subsidies and a stimulus to private building.
large
▪ In 1922 it received a shot in the arm through a large subsidy from the Central Committee.
local
▪ Nevertheless, the balance between central and local government subsidy for sport changed markedly in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
▪ In the mid-1980s local authorities' subsidies to sport were more than twice the amount given by central government.
massive
▪ Nuclear power still attracts massive subsidies while coal mining is expected to compete in a harsh world market.
▪ Still, it amounted to a massive subsidy to Wall Street from Congress.
▪ Elbing s shipyards were kept going after the war only as a result of massive subsidy from the Reich.
▪ They claim foreign governments pay massive subsidies to their aerospace industries and the unequal competition threatens the Jetstream factory's future.
public
▪ That is not true today in many areas that previously had public subsidies.
▪ Many of these projects are now losing massive amounts of money and only survive with public subsidies.
▪ During the 1980s, legislation and public subsidies were directed at an increase in owner-occupation and an attack on council housing.
▪ In the past, of course, no public subsidy was needed for the poor to purchase television sets.
▪ And they did it without a public subsidy.
▪ Or are public subsidies being given to support unspecified claims about cultural maintenance, diversity, and development?
▪ The Government has cut public transport subsidies.
▪ It might require public subsidies to political parties to finance their own newspapers and television stations.
■ NOUN
export
▪ In order to compensate firms for the loss of their retention rights, the federal government set up a scheme of export subsidies.
▪ Changes in tariffs and export subsidies might be used. 3.
farm
▪ We hear about farm subsidies and the social wage.
▪ Federal farm subsidies are riddled with hypocrisies.
▪ Republicans would put a first-ever annual limit on farm subsidies.
▪ Moreover, farm subsidies undermine the efforts of developing countries to follow Washington's economic prescriptions.
▪ The price rises wiped out the need for farm subsidies.
food
▪ It was growing from the twin roots of controlled food prices and food subsidies.
▪ Perhaps you have forgotten about the food subsidies?
▪ Extra funds were given to agricultural production, food subsidies, and housing for armed forces personnel.
▪ The unions threatened a further general strike on Aug. 22-23 if basic food subsidies and wages were not increased.
government
▪ He also took government subsidies for agriculture, applying them to his catch-cropping enterprise.
▪ The only educational investment most banks are willing to make without government subsidies or guarantees is for medical students.
▪ But Robert Brown, Bombardier's chief executive, told analysts yesterday the SkyWest deal involved no government subsidies.
▪ The banks receive a government subsidy to cover the differential between market interest rates and the loan's fixed interest rate.
▪ It relied on government subsidy and was closed at the end of 1958.
▪ The farmers are also helped by a Government subsidy for the number of livestock they keep on the uplands.
▪ Their experts wasted no time in cutting trade barriers, limiting government subsidies and selling off state industries.
▪ Perhaps a government subsidy, sourced from entertainment tax, should have been applied in the interests of mass circulation.
housing
▪ The proposed budget cuts would have affected housing subsidies, pensions, family payments and civil service pay.
▪ Insulation, incredibly enough in our climate, did not get housing subsidy and so is primitive or non-existent.
price
▪ The cost of the compensation was being met out of the money saved by cutting price subsidies.
▪ The cost transfer necessary would be far greater than the cost of the price subsidy.
▪ A price subsidy causes the budget line to change to 13.
▪ In this way the price subsidy scheme is a less efficient instrument for redistribution.
scheme
▪ Eleven ministries run 18 different subsidy schemes for everything from school lunches to milk.
▪ In this way the price subsidy scheme is a less efficient instrument for redistribution.
▪ Funding and subsidy schemes were only to be allowed provided they were open to all artists in the Community.
state
▪ This literature is very substantial and far more sophisticated than the state subsidy theory of strikes.
▪ The school gets a $ 10. 3 million state subsidy, a third of its yearly budget.
▪ The whole post-war attempt to democratise culture through State subsidy has failed.
▪ Traditionally, the city has relied on federal and state subsidies to build affordable housing.
▪ Expensive state subsidies cushioned but could not reverse Yucatan's long decline.
▪ This is the state subsidy theory of strikes.
▪ The second approach to verifying the state subsidy theory is through interviews with strikers.
▪ In less fertile and inaccessible regions, introducing free market forces and removing state subsidies brought poverty instead of wealth.
tax
▪ Anderson's proposal is for the tax subsidy to be limited to a five-year duration.
▪ This raises an open question: What will these tax subsidies actually subsidize?
▪ Paradoxically, the tax subsidy cushions the borrower from the full effects of a restrictive monetary policy.
▪ It would eliminate some of the tax subsidies that benefit corporations.
▪ Together they fought to keep the tax subsidy for churches in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
▪ Without those tax subsidies, buyers will not be willing to pay the same prices for homes.
■ VERB
cut
▪ Further cuts in government subsidies on petrol, diesel, kerosene and fertilizer were announced.
▪ The Government has cut public transport subsidies.
▪ To raise the money, the government has increased taxes and cut subsidies.
eliminate
▪ The Republicans' budget proposal for 1995 would have eliminated the subsidy students can get while in college.
end
▪ The government would end price controls and subsidies to industry, and impose tight budgets and curbs on welfare spending.
▪ Would ending subsidies spell the end for small farms?
grant
▪ The Good Parliament had refused to grant a subsidy, and accordingly another parliament was summoned for January 1377.
house
▪ Octavia Hill believed, with most other Victorians, that housing should pay its way to her, housing subsidies were unthinkable.
▪ Most beneficiaries of federal housing subsidies are wealthy or at least upper middle class.
▪ The young reformer has attacked previously untouchable sectors such as the energy monopolies and housing subsidies.
▪ The plan provided for large-scale modernization and renovation of public housing and the continuation of some housing subsidies for new construction.
increase
▪ The government remains committed to continuing to subsidise the industry, though not to increasing the subsidy.
▪ It's because Middlesbrough Council can not afford to increase the subsidy for concessionary fares from £1.35m.
▪ To raise the money, the government has increased taxes and cut subsidies.
offer
▪ And national or local government may offer subsidies for businesses to set up in favoured areas.
pay
▪ Rather than paying out subsidies, the Government now receives substantial annual taxation receipts.
▪ It pays interest subsidies only to Ford Credit, not other finance houses.
▪ Rather than do anything about it, the Council pay the farmers a subsidy to filter the water.
▪ They claim foreign governments pay massive subsidies to their aerospace industries and the unequal competition threatens the Jetstream factory's future.
▪ To pay for these subsidies the government must tax the rich.
provide
▪ The central government decided to provide subsidies to local governments for the courses at the end of November.
▪ Section 8 provides landlords with subsidies to maintain low-income housing for the poor and also gives financial assistance to tenants.
▪ Ministers are considering providing subsidies to people in high-risk categories, as well as a legally enforce able moratorium.
▪ Other activities, like job training, produce both private and collective benefits; hence governments often provide them a partial subsidy.
▪ Intervention can be either negative for certain classes of asset holder or supportive by providing subsidies of varying magnitude.
receive
▪ It received a subsidy of 6,000 acres per mile.
▪ Those earning above that level would receive lesser subsidies.
▪ The provincial authorities were to turn over more revenue to the state while receiving reduced subsidies, in order to centralize resources.
▪ For those receiving subsidies, the federal aid would be enough to select up to the average-price plan.
▪ The banks receive a government subsidy to cover the differential between market interest rates and the loan's fixed interest rate.
▪ And a proposal that the city require companies receiving taxpayer subsidies to pay higher wages also went nowhere.
▪ This proves expensive for the police, who receive no subsidy from soccer sources for officers on duty outside the stadium.
▪ A growing number of clubs and societies such as the movie-makers, art appreciation and folk club, all receive Union subsidy.
reduce
▪ Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke.
▪ The privatisation of finance occurs when the government reduces subsidies or increases charges.
▪ He anticipates that focusing management control will improve the efficiency of the operation and reduce the need for subsidies.
▪ Council house rent levels have increasingly been influenced - if not determined - by central government order to reduce subsidies.
require
▪ It might require public subsidies to political parties to finance their own newspapers and television stations.
▪ And a proposal that the city require companies receiving taxpayer subsidies to pay higher wages also went nowhere.
▪ Secondly, marginal cost pricing in natural monopoly does not necessarily require a subsidy.
▪ Cost-based prices would prevent such entry, but would probably require a subsidy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Congress may cut some subsidies to farmers.
▪ Farm subsidies totaled $53 billion last year.
▪ Federal subsidies would be available to help employers pay the insurance premiums.
▪ Lacking the generous subsidies that European orchestras receive, modern American groups are under increasing pressure to play popular pieces.
▪ The taskforce has recommended some kind of subsidy to help businesses get their Internet start-ups off the ground.
▪ They built and financed a whole new suburb, and they did it without a public subsidy.
▪ US farmers are having trouble coping with the reductions in agricultural subsidies.
▪ Without state subsidies, the railways couldn't survive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And for two days officials from the General Council discussed with the Government the possibility of extending the subsidy.
▪ But donations to help elect or defeat political candidates have been denied such a subsidy since 1954.
▪ Government subsidies in the form of legal notices shrank while circulation and advertising income rose dramatically.
▪ Housing subsidies, food supplements, and health care will decline to levels that no longer can alleviate the pain.
▪ One delegate likened Mr Gummer's motion to abolish subsidies on agricultural production to turkeys voting for Christmas.
▪ Still, it amounted to a massive subsidy to Wall Street from Congress.
▪ The Commission official insisted these loans were repayable with interest, and did not constitute a subsidy.
▪ The devaluation and the cuts in subsidies resulted in price rises of between 100 and 120 percent.