What is the difference between subsidy and benefit?
subsidy | benefit | Synonyms |
Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
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An advantage, help, sake or aid from something.
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A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
A performance, etc, given to raise funds for some cause.
(obsolete) beneficence; liberality
To be or to provide a benefit to.
* Bible, Jer. xviii. 10
To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
Benefit is a synonym of subsidy.
As nouns the difference between subsidy and benefit
is that subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant while benefit is an advantage, help, sake or aid from something.As a verb benefit is
to be or to provide a benefit to.subsidy
English
(wikipedia subsidy)Noun
(subsidies)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.}}
Antonyms
* taxbenefit
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* beneficial * benefiterSynonyms
* (advantage, help ): foredeal, advantage, aid, assistance, boon, help * (payment ): subsidyAntonyms
* (advantage, help ): disadvantage, encumbrance, hindrance, nuisance, obstacle, detrimentSee also
* lagniappeVerb
- I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.