Subsidy vs Tariff - What's the difference?
subsidy | tariff |
Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
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, title= (dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
a system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves
a schedule of rates, fees or prices
(British) a sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime
As nouns the difference between subsidy and tariff
is that subsidy is financial support or assistance, such as a grant while tariff is a system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves.As a verb tariff is
to levy a duty on (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.}}
