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Subsidy vs Spending - What's the difference?

subsidy | spending |

As nouns the difference between subsidy and spending

is that subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant while spending is an amount that has been, or is planned to be spent.

As a verb spending is

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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

    spending

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent