Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To assist or support with a subsidy.
- transitive verb To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furnish with a subsidy; purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; hence, in recent use, to secure the coöperation of by bribing; buy over. Also spelled
subsidise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
assist someone or something bygranting asubsidy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces
- verb support through subsidies
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Examples
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The only thing we need to subsidize is a massive Manhattan style project to come up with better ways that won't take decades to implement.
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With universal service, we city-dwellers once again subsidize the cost for those proudly libertarian anti-government types out in the sticks.
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According to a 2008 study by Amtrak’s inspector general, honest accounting shows that Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, the U.K. and Spain subsidize their trains heavily -- up to $37 for every mile a train travels in Germany.
High-speed rail will take taxpayers for a ride Charles Lane 2010
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Yes, AT&T will write off a billion to cover the TAX CREDITS they have been getting to "subsidize" retirement benefits.
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Mr. Camps proposal for refundable tax credits for lower-income Americans to "subsidize" health care expenses is a ridiculous idea.
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The best way to "subsidize" alternative energy is to eliminate special tax advantages for the fossil fuel industry, like depletion allowances.
Energy Conservation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Comcast just doesn't want to "subsidize" Level 3's business the same way that Level 3 did not want to "subsidize" Cogent's 5 years ago -- and the very same way that the everyday broadband subscriber does not want to "subsidize" Level 3's business.
Julius H. Hollis: Level 3: Let's Call a Spade a Spade... and Let's Play Fair Julius H. Hollis 2010
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Comcast just doesn't want to "subsidize" Level 3's business the same way that Level 3 did not want to "subsidize" Cogent's 5 years ago -- and the very same way that the everyday broadband subscriber does not want to "subsidize" Level 3's business.
Julius H. Hollis: Level 3: Let's Call a Spade a Spade... and Let's Play Fair Julius H. Hollis 2010
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Comcast just doesn't want to "subsidize" Level 3's business the same way that Level 3 did not want to "subsidize" Cogent's 5 years ago -- and the very same way that the everyday broadband subscriber does not want to "subsidize" Level 3's business.
Julius H. Hollis: Level 3: Let's Call a Spade a Spade... and Let's Play Fair Julius H. Hollis 2010
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Comcast just doesn't want to "subsidize" Level 3's business the same way that Level 3 did not want to "subsidize" Cogent's 5 years ago -- and the very same way that the everyday broadband subscriber does not want to "subsidize" Level 3's business.
Julius H. Hollis: Level 3: Let's Call a Spade a Spade... and Let's Play Fair Julius H. Hollis 2010
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