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Subsidy vs Substitution - What's the difference?

subsidy | substitution |

As nouns the difference between subsidy and substitution

is that subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant while substitution is substitution, replacement.

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

    substitution

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of substituting or the state of being substituted
  • a substitute or replacement
  • (chemistry) (especially in organic chemistry) the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another
  • Derived terms

    * substitution cipher * substitution reaction * substitution rule

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