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Subsidy vs Subsidize - What's the difference?

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Subsidize is a related term of subsidy.


As a noun subsidy

is financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

As a verb subsidize is

to assist someone or something by granting a subsidy.

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

    subsidize

    English

    Verb

    (subsidiz)
  • To assist someone or something by granting a subsidy.