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- Subsidy - n. - Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.
- Subsidy - n. - Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.
- Subsidy - n. - A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.
- Subsidy - n. - A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.
- Aid - v. t. - A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.
- Poundage - n. - A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.