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subvention | x |

As a noun subvention

is a subsidy; provision of financial or other support.

As a verb subvention

is to subsidise.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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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    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----