To provide financial support that helps sustain an activity or reduces the cost borne by its recipient or user.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- subsidize a service
- subsidize production
On the page
The authority subsidized the service because fares alone did not cover the agreed provision.
The policy subsidized production but left the distribution of benefits open to analysis.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- subsidize
- Past tense
- subsidized
- Past participle
- subsidized
- Present participle
- subsidizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- subsidize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are subsidizing
- Present perfect
- have/has subsidized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been subsidizing
- Past
- subsidized
- Past continuous
- was/were subsidizing
- Past perfect
- had subsidized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been subsidizing
- Future
- will subsidize
- Future continuous
- will be subsidizing
- Future perfect
- will have subsidized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been subsidizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: subsidize; subsidizes; subsidized; subsidized; subsidizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: subsidizes.
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