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Subvention vs Subvent - What's the difference?

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Subvention is a related term of subvent.


As verbs the difference between subvention and subvent

is that subvention is to subsidise while subvent is (hong kong) to subsidize.

As a noun subvention

is a subsidy; provision of financial or other support.

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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    subvent

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Hong Kong) To subsidize.
  • * The Duty Lawyer Service is subvented by the HKSAR government, but independently administered by the legal profession of Hong Kong.
    • 2008 , Department of Justice - Legal System of Hong Kong.[http://www.doj.gov.hk/eng/legal/index.htm]

    Related terms

    * subvention