Subsidy vs Subsidence - What's the difference?
subsidy | subsidence |
Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
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, title= (dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
The process of becoming less active or severe
* Bishop Warburton
A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation or seismic activity or groundwater depletion
As nouns the difference between subsidy and subsidence
is that subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant while subsidence is the process of becoming less active or severe.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
* taxsubsidence
English
Noun
(wikipedia subsidence)- The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.