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Backing vs Subsidy - What's the difference?

backing | subsidy |

As nouns the difference between backing and subsidy

is that backing is support, especially financial while subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

As an adjective backing

is (music) that which provides support for the main performer.

As a verb backing

is .

backing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Support, especially financial.
    • It's a volunteer organization that works with backing from the city and a few grants.
  • A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
    • The cardboard backing gives the notebook a little extra stiffness.
  • (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (music) That which provides support for the main performer

    • Verb

    (head)

    • subsidy

    English

    (wikipedia subsidy)

    Noun

    (subsidies)
  • Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • (dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.

    • Antonyms

    * tax

    Related terms

    * subsidize