Subsidy vs Supplement - What's the difference?
subsidy | supplement |
Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
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, title= (dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.
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, title= An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors or brings up to date.
An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject.
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*:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements , refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "
(lb) An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.
A vitamin, herbal extract or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development.
To provide or make a supplement to something.
As nouns the difference between subsidy and supplement
is that subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant while supplement is something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.As a verb supplement is
to provide or make a supplement to something.subsidy
English
(wikipedia subsidy)Noun
(subsidies)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.}}
Antonyms
* taxsupplement
English
Noun
(en noun)Athletics and Herbal Supplements, passage=Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.}}