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Subsidy vs Subvention - What's the difference?

subsidy | subvention |

As nouns the difference between subsidy and subvention

is that subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant while subvention is a subsidy; provision of financial or other support.

As a verb subvention is

to subsidise.

subsidy

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * subsidize

    subvention

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
  • The act of coming under.
  • * Stackhouse
    • The subvention of a cloud.
  • The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To subsidise.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 136:
    • His task was, it is true, made easier by the need of the English to remove troops to put down the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising, which the French had subventioned .
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