to subsidize
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6.0
- verb
- /ˈsʌb.sɪ.daɪz/
- US
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subvencionar
- Since 1988, the European Union has subsidized cropland set-aside in order to limit production.
- subsidized housing
- government subsidizes
- subsidized prices
That way governments wouldn't have to subsidize families who are working.
- That way governments wouldn't have to subsidize families who are working.
- Taxes are being used to subsidize the activities of Scientology.
- When we look in the developing world, Indonesia has historically subsidized fossil fuels.
- And should the public be taking on the risk by subsidizing those things?
- We don't call it subsidizing the sport.
- Let's just look for ways to stop subsidizing it.
- It's still, despite high tuition fees, it's still hugely subsidised by the taxpayer.
- NEO stops subsidizing JOJAC for their losses.
- So once again a market distortion where low risk home owners are forced to subsidise high risk home owners.
- What happens when your parents love you so much that they think the right thing to do is to subsidize some of your life by paying for it?
- And the IMF will subsidized a country going fastest to ruin, as Adam Smith would say.
- I think at the moment meat is probably too cheap in this country because the amount we pay for meat is subsidized by taxpayers money.
- What is missing from the equation is how much our tax money throughout the last century has subsidized the oil and gas industry.
- Their contract with subsidizing losses for JC ends in April.
Examples
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And should the public be taking on the risk by subsidizing those things?
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But the question has been raised, can we afford to subsidize that many jobs?
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We're going to need to find ways to subsidize my work.
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Federal government will subsidize... pay us...
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You want to subsidize my music?
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Actually, Sack got the governor to subsidize part of the project.
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That way governments wouldn't have to subsidize families who are working.
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In 1997, $30 million from the Health Care Access Fund was used to subsidize MCHA for 2 years.
Academic text (2011) -
The cost to the federal government of subsidizing coverage in the exchanges, in turn, could become unsustainable.
Academic text (2011) -
The government decided to subsidize small businesses affected by the pandemic to help them survive.
Synonyms
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7.9
To promise to provide money for a project if needed
Give money to help pay for something, usually by a grant
To give money to help an activity or group
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Etymology
Subsidize comes from Latin parts sub- 'under' and sedere 'to sit', and from the Latin word subsidium which meant 'help'. Think of a subsidy as money that 'sits under' a project to hold it up, so to subsidize is to give money to help and support it.