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The playing field is anything but level when you walk into the grocery store. So much government subsidy goes into processed foods. Even when you're well-meaning as a parent or a shopper for yourself, you can't help but be pulled toward the highly processed food.
Michael Moss

Meaning of "subsidy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SUBSIDY

From Anglo-Norman subsidie, from Latin subsidium assistance, from subsidēre to remain, from sub- down + sedēre to sit.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBSIDY

subsidy  [ˈsʌbsɪdɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBSIDY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Subsidy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUBSIDY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

subsidy

Subsidy

A subsidy is a form of financial or in kind support extended to an economic sector generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy. Although commonly extended from Government, the term subsidy can relate to any type of support - for example from NGOs or implicit subsidies. Subsidies come in various forms including: direct and indirect. Furthermore, they can be broad or narrow, legal or illegal, ethical or unethical. The most common forms of subsidies are those to the producer or the consumer. Producer/Production subsidies ensure producers are better off by either supplying market price support, direct support, or payments to factors of production. Consumer/Consumption subsidies commonly reduce the price of goods and services to the consumer. For example, in the US at one time it was cheaper to buy gasoline than bottled water. Whether subsidies are positive or negative is typically a normative judgment. As a form of economic intervention, subsidies are inherently contrary to the market's demands. Thus, they are commonly used by governments to promote general welfare. However, they can also be used as tools of political and corporate cronyism.

Definition of subsidy in the English dictionary

The first definition of subsidy in the dictionary is a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, for reasons of public welfare, the balance of payments, etc. Other definition of subsidy is a financial grant made originally for special purposes by Parliament to the Crown. Subsidy is also any monetary contribution, grant, or aid.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBSIDY


accidie
ˈæksɪdɪ
acidy
ˈæsɪdɪ
Adie
ˈeɪdɪ
antisubsidy
æntɪˈsʌbsɪdɪ
cedi
ˈseɪdɪ
comedy
ˈkɒmɪdɪ
diddy
ˈdɪdɪ
Friday
ˈfraɪdɪ
giddy
ˈɡɪdɪ
Kennedy
ˈkɛnɪdɪ
kiddie
ˈkɪdɪ
kiddy
ˈkɪdɪ
lady
ˈleɪdɪ
midi
ˈmɪdɪ
remedy
ˈrɛmɪdɪ
shady
ˈʃeɪdɪ
siddhi
ˈsɪdɪ
tidy
ˈtaɪdɪ
tragedy
ˈtrædʒɪdɪ
vide
ˈvaɪdɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBSIDY

subside
subsidence
subsidency
subsidiariat
subsidiaries
subsidiarily
subsidiariness
subsidiarity
subsidiary
subsidiary coin
subsidiary company
subsidies
subsidisable
subsidiser
subsidizable
subsidization
subsidize
subsidizer
subsist
subsistence

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBSIDY

allopolyploidy
amphiploidy
aneuploidy
autopolyploidy
bang tidy
didy
diploidy
euploidy
food subsidy
haploidy
hyperploidy
octaploidy
pentaploidy
perfidy
polyploidy
sink tidy
tabloidy
tetraploidy
triploidy
untidy

Synonyms and antonyms of subsidy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SUBSIDY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «subsidy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of subsidy

Translation of «subsidy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBSIDY

Find out the translation of subsidy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of subsidy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «subsidy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

津贴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

subvención
570 millions of speakers

English

subsidy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सब्सिडी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إعَانَةٌ مَالِيَّة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

субсидия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

subsídio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভর্তুকি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

subvention
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Subsidi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zuschuss
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

助成金
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보조금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Subsidi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiền trợ cấp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மானியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनुदान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sübvansiyon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sussidio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dotacja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

субсидія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

subvenție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιδότηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

subsidie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

subvention
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

subsidie
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of subsidy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSIDY»

The term «subsidy» is very widely used and occupies the 23.199 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSIDY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «subsidy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «subsidy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about subsidy

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7 QUOTES WITH «SUBSIDY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word subsidy.
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Peter Brimelow
If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.
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Luis Gutierrez
And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.
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John Kasich
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
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Bill McKibben
We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
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Michael Moss
The playing field is anything but level when you walk into the grocery store. So much government subsidy goes into processed foods. Even when you're well-meaning as a parent or a shopper for yourself, you can't help but be pulled toward the highly processed food.
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Alex North
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.
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Deval Patrick
People aren't going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expanding health care for those who need the subsidy is picked up by the federal government for most of the early years.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBSIDY»

Discover the use of subsidy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to subsidy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Definition of Subsidy and State Aid: WTO and EC Law in ...
This book presents a conceptual analysis of the definitions of state aid and subsidy in EC and WTO law.
Luca Rubini, 2009
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Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy: Assets and Income are ...
To help defray the cost of prescription drugs for beneficiaries with limited means, the Medicare Prescription, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 included the low-income subsidy (LIS) in the Part D prescription drug insurance ...
A. Bruce Steinwald, 2009
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The Subsidy from Nature: Palm Forests, Peasantry, and ...
Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design.
Anthony Bennett Anderson, Peter Herman May, Michael J. Balick, 1991
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The Pilot Food Price Subsidy Scheme in the Philippines: Its ...
The pilot food price subsidy scheme; The study areas; Assessment of implementation; Analytical methodology; Descriptive analysis of income, consumption, and nutritional patterns; A comparative analysis of the effects of the food price ...
Marito Garcia, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, 1987
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OECD Steel and Shipbuilding Subsidy Negotiations: Text and ...
From 2003 through 2005 the OECD hosted talks among major producing countries aimed at reducing subsidies in the steel and shipbuilding industries.
Fabrizio Pagani, 2008
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International Economics
To partially insulate domestic producers from foreign competition, suppose the U.S. government grants them a production subsidy of$25 per ton of steel. The cost advantage made possible by the subsidy results in a shift in the U.S. supply  ...
Robert Carbaugh, 2012
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Public Finance
thereby moving to a steeper point on the indifference curve at point E3. The pricedistorting subsidy induces the consumer to purchase a larger amount of housing services than would be the case if she received an equivalent cash grant .
David Hyman, 2007
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The Egyptian Food Subsidy System: Structure, Performance, ...
1996/97, the total cost of Egypt's food subsidy system was LE 3.74 billion (see Table 2.1), of which baladi bread accounted for 61.7 percent; wheat flour, 14.9 percent; sugar, 13.1 percent; and cooking oil, 10.3 percent.11 The rates of subsidy to ...
Akhter U. Ahmed, 2001
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OECD Sustainable Development Studies Subsidy Reform and ...
The first is, does the subsidy achieve the economic impacts that it is expected to achieve? As with the other types of effectiveness analysis, one of the most difficult aspects to this search is to actually articulate the objectives in such a way that ...
OECD, 2007
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The Effects of the Egyptian Food Ration and Subsidy System ...
The nature of existing subsidy programs and their costs and benefits vary among countries. In order to assist governments in their deliberations regarding food price policies in general and subsidies in particular, IFPRI undertakes studies of ...
Harold Alderman, Joachim Von Braun, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBSIDY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term subsidy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Solar Could Be First Energy To Be Free Of Subsidy In UK
A month later, the UK Government announced that it would begin consultations on possibly expanding the subsidy cuts to include solar, and accreditation ... «CleanTechnica, Jul 15»
2
Fossil fuels subsidised by $10ma minute, says IMF
Ending the subsidies would also slash the number of premature deaths from ... “These [fossil fuel subsidy] estimates are shocking,” said Vitor Gaspar, the IMF's ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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Elderly man with prostitute under bed loses housing subsidy
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Authorities say a man living in a suburban Philadelphia assisted living facility has lost his housing subsidy after officials found a prostitute ... «New York Post, May 15»
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What's At Stake If Supreme Court Eliminates Your Obamacare Subsidy
The Affordable Care Act requires all Americans to get health insurance or pay a penalty. To help coax people to buy a health plan, the federal government now ... «NPR, Apr 15»
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Government exempts ONGC, Oil India Limited from LPG subsidy
Upstream oil and gas producers ONGC, OIL and GAIL had to borne a portion of subsidy on cooking fuels LPG and kerosene and diesel till October 2014. «Economic Times, Apr 15»
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Yingluck rice subsidy case to go before court
Yingluck was banned from politics for five years in January after a military-backed legislature found her guilty of corruption related to the subsidy. Yingluck, who ... «The Japan Times, Mar 15»
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Budget 2015: Government may cut subsidy bill by 20%
NEW DELHI: Government may slash its food and fuel subsidy bill by about $8 billion in next week's budget, two sources said, but despite the impressive ... «Economic Times, Feb 15»
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Former Thai Leader Yingluck Shinawatra Charged in Rice-Subsidy
The idea behind the rice subsidy was to buy up the grain from farmers at up to double the market price. Thailand, then the world's largest exporter, would then ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
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Government looking at changes to Nutrition North food subsidy
But the $60-million annual food subsidy has been under scrutiny ever since auditor ... would indicate whether the full subsidy is being passed on to consumers. «CBC.ca, Jan 15»
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Thailand Rice Subsidy Scheme: What It Is And How It Toppled Thai …
Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached Friday for her role in a rice subsidy program that cost the Thai government billions. The rice subsidy ... «International Business Times, Jan 15»

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