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subsidy
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subsidy

Subsidy \Sub"si*dy\, n.; pl. Subsidies. [L. subsidium the troops stationed in reserve in the third line of battlem reserve, support, help, fr. subsidere to sit down, lie in wait: cf. F. subside. See Subside.]

  1. Support; aid; co["o]peration; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.

    They advised the king to send speedy aids, and with much alacrity granted a great rate of subsidy.
    --Bacon.

    Note: Subsidies were taxes, not immediately on on property, but on persons in respect of their reputed estates, after the nominal rate of 4s. the pound for lands, and 2s. 8d. for goods.
    --Blackstone.

  2. Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the co["o]peration or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.

  3. A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.

    Syn: Tribute; grant.

    Usage: Subsidy, Tribute. A subsidy is voluntary; a tribute is exacted.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subsidy

late 14c., from Anglo-French subsidie, Old French subside "help, aid, assistance, contribution," from Latin subsidium "a help, aid, assistance, (military) reinforcements, troops in reserve," from subsidere "to settle down, stay, remain" (see subside).

Wiktionary
subsidy

n. financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

WordNet
subsidy

n. a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public; "a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence"

Wikipedia
Subsidy

A subsidy is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (or institution, business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy. Although commonly extended from government, the term subsidy can relate to any type of support – for example from NGOs or as implicit subsidies. Subsidies come in various forms including: direct (cash grants, interest-free loans) and indirect ( tax breaks, insurance, low-interest loans, accelerated depreciation, rent rebates).

Furthermore, they can be broad or narrow, legal or illegal, ethical or unethical. The most common forms of subsidies are those to the producer or the consumer. Producer/production subsidies ensure producers are better off by either supplying market price support, direct support, or payments to factors of production. Consumer/consumption subsidies commonly reduce the price of goods and services to the consumer. For example, in the US at one time it was cheaper to buy gasoline than bottled water.

Whether subsidies are positive or negative is typically a normative judgment. As a form of economic intervention, subsidies are inherently contrary to the market's demands. However, they can also be used as tools of political and corporate cronyism.

Usage examples of "subsidy".

Those barbarians, allured by presents and subsidies, had promised to invade Persia with a numerous body of light cavalry.

The love of rapine and war allured to the Imperial standard several tribes of Saracens, or roving Arabs, whose service Julian had commanded, while he sternly refused the payment of the accustomed subsidies.

Act for levying the necessary subsidy ordained that every alien made a denizen should be rated like a native, but that aliens who had not become denizens should be assessed at double the amount at which natives were assessed.

Nothing could be a greater burlesque upon the negotiation than this treaty of alliance concluded with the petty duke of Wolfenbuttle, who very gravely guarantees to his Britannic majesty the possession of his three kingdoms, and obliges himself to supply his majesty with five thousand men, in consideration of an annual subsidy of five-andtwenty thousand pounds for four years.

The subsidies to Sweden, Hesse-Cassel, and Wolfen-buttle were continued, notwithstanding the remonstrances of sir Joseph Jekyll, Mr.

At length, however, they supplied her with a subsidy, and ordered twenty thousand men to march to her assistance, notwithstanding the intrigues of the marquis de Fenelon, the French ambassador at the Hague, and the declaration of the king of Prussia, who disapproved of this measure, and refused them a passage through his territories to the Rhine.

The rapacious Vandals confiscated the patrimonial estates of the senators, and intercepted the regular subsidies, which relieved the poverty and encouraged the idleness of the plebeians.

Paying lip service to conservation and environmental concerns, the report focused almost exclusively on deregulation, giant subsidies, and tax breaks that would benefit virtually every major polluter in the energy industry.

A theatrical troupe from Earth was offered its own settlement and a subsidy and was meant to tour the other colonies with a repertory of ancient and modern drama.

England it is the known birthright and inheritance of the subject that no tax, tallage, or other charge shall be levied or imposed but by common consent in England, and that the subsidies of tonnage and poundage are no way due or payable but by a free gift and special Act of Parliament.

She knew the hatred of the Cabinets of Europe towards France, and she was sure, by her intrigues and subsidies, of arming them on her side whenever her plans reached maturity.

The trouble is that one single Indiaman taken would be exceedingly damaging to us and more immediately profitable than any subsidy I am empowered to offer: and in these parts the outcome of the war seems by no means as certain as I could wish.

Subsidies and loans from Kulu had long since ended, self-sufficiency both industrially and economically had been reached in 2545, exports were accelerating.

Their neoliberal experts wasted no time in cutting trade barriers, limiting government subsidies and selling off state industries.

Council, of 12 men and women of nearly equal proportions, had authority over the reformatories, as well as what was called the industrial school, which was to be reduced to a mere receiving home, and all the children placed out, either on subsidy or at service.