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.

Noun

(es)

Something extra that is good.

An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

(uncountable, basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.