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Subsidy vs Subsidiarity - What's the difference?

subsidy | subsidiarity |

As nouns the difference between subsidy and subsidiarity

is that subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant while subsidiarity is the principle that government power ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (ie at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages).

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

    subsidiarity

    Noun

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  • The principle that government power ought to reside at the lowest feasible level (i.e. at the local or regional level, instead of the national or supranational level, unless the latter presents clear advantages)