subsidy.

Financial support provided to sustain an activity or reduce a cost for a recipient or user.

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Words that belong together

• public subsidy
• production subsidy

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The public subsidy covered part of the service’s cost under stated conditions.

The production subsidy changed incentives without guaranteeing that every benefit reached the intended users.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Singular subsidy; plural subsidies. 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.