Subsidy vs Subvene - What's the difference?
subsidy | subvene |
Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
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, title= (dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
To arrive or happen so as to help or support
As a noun subsidy
is financial support or assistance, such as a grant.As a verb subvene is
to arrive or happen so as to help or support.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
* taxsubvene
English
Verb
(subven)- A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin. — Bishop Warburton.