Subsidy vs Rebate - What's the difference?
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Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
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, title= (dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.
The return of part of an amount already paid.
(photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
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A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
To diminish or lessen something
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
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To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
To abate; to withdraw.
As nouns the difference between subsidy and rebate
is that subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant while rebate is a deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.As a verb rebate is
to deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment.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
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(rebat)- But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
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