Crossword clues for subvention
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subvention \Sub*ven"tion\, n. [F., fr. LL. subventio, fr. L. subvenire to come up to one's assistance, to assist. See Souvenir, and cf. Subvene.]
The act of coming under. ``The subvention of a cloud.''
--Stackhouse.The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
A government aid or bounty.
Subvention \Sub*ven"tion\, v. t. To subventionize.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French subvencion "support, assistance, taxation" (14c.), from Late Latin subventionem (nominative subventio) "assistance," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin subvenire "come to one's aid, assist, reinforce," from sub "up to" (see sub-) + venire "to come" (see venue).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A subsidy; provision of financial or other support. 2 The act of coming under. 3 The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help. vb. To subsidise.
WordNet
n. grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution
the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort
v. guarantee financial support of; "The opera tour was subvented by a bank" [syn: underwrite, subvent]
Usage examples of "subvention".
The success of these works was such that in 1854 the composer was given a subvention for further foreign study by the Princess Helene and Count Wielhorski, upon which followed four brilliant years of incessant activity as virtuoso pianist and composer, extending as far as London and Paris.
Norwegian legislature at Christiana, a petition was presented from the world-known fiddler, Ole Bull, in which he solicited the creation of a national theatre in that town, to receive a subvention from the government, and to which a dramatic school was to be attached.
Soon, however, with a military call-up approaching, he left Italy for Switzerland, home to many expatriates, where he lived off friends and odd jobs, and, like so many other revolutionaries, received the occasional subvention from his parents.
Therefore it seems to me that the method of subvention is on all grounds to be preferred to the method of preference.
State Unemployment Insurance Office against unemployment on a voluntary basis, and to secure, through the State subvention, much better terms than it would be possible for them to obtain at the present time.
Tory successor, Sir George Foster, substantiallv increased these subventions, then enacted regulations that only goods travelling to Canada on steamships sailing directly to Canadian ports would be eligible for preferential British tariffs.
If this is unnaturally raised by charitable subventions to twelve shillings, then everything will collapse.
The whole system was sustained by the authority and the lavish subventions of the Spanish government, and herein lay its strength and, as the event speedily proved, its fatal weakness.
Democratic opposition research on the 1968 treason, they were looking for evidence that the Democrats either knew about bribes to the president from Howard Hughes or, much more probably, that they knew about secret subventions paid to Nixon and Agnew by the Greek military dictatorship.
Other funds were added either by ourselves, or came through subventions, of which the most important, accorded in 1902 by the Academy of Sciences, amounted to 20,000 francs.
Until some proper cover can be found, I am asking you for direct subventions from Treasury funds rather than mere supplementaries to the Secret Vote which in due course are certain to find their way into the mainstream of Circus accounting.