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Donation vs Subsidy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between donation and subsidy

is that donation is a voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause while subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

donation

Noun

(en noun)
  • A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.
  • See also

    * fundraising ----

    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