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.

Noun

(wikipedia subsidence)

The process of becoming less active or severe

* Bishop Warburton

The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.

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