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Subvention

noun
1.
Grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution.
2.
The act or process of providing aid or help of any sort.






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"Subvention" Quotes from Famous Books



... base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait [U.S.], caudex crib^; point d'appui [Fr.], pou sto [Gr.], purchase footing, hold, locus standi [Lat.]; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor &c (basement) 211. supporter; aid &c 707; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment^; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit^, outrigger; ratlings^. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... it is customary for art to enter by a side door, and the enormous subvention to the Kensington Schools would never have been voted by Parliament if the bill had not been gilt with the usual utility gilding. It was represented that the schools were intended for something much more serious than the mere painting of pictures, which ...
— Modern Painting • George Moore



Words linked to "Subvention" :   provision, undertake, supplying, subsidy, guarantee, supply, subvent



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