grant-in-aid
Americannoun
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grants-in-aid
plural
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a subsidy furnished by a central government to a local one to help finance a public project, as the construction of a highway or school.
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a financial subsidy given to an individual or institution for research, educational, or cultural purposes.
noun
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a sum of money granted by one government to a lower level of government or to a dependency for a programme, etc
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education a grant provided by the central government or local education authority to ensure consistent standards in buildings and other facilities
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of grant-in-aid
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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This work was supported by grant-in-aid for Scientific Research 15H05724, 21K18547, and 22H02941 to SO.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
The amount owed to each athlete would be the half of the sport’s total revenue minus the team’s total student grant-in-aid package divided by the number of players.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2022
Coach Kevin Willard announced Thursday that Smith had signed a grant-in-aid offer.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
The final part of Carney’s proposed budget package is $55 million in grant funding for nonprofit organizations, community groups and volunteer fire companies, an amount equal to the current grant-in-aid budget.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
Federal grant-in-aid welfare programs, now based on widely varying formulas, should be simplified.
From State of the Union Address by Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower
Football "scholarships" are not the bootstrapping grants-in-aid portrayed in sports mythology; they are semester-to-semester contracts at the almost sole discretion of the coaches.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2021
The history of grants-in-aid goes back more than 200 years, to the period before the Constitution.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
Sigma Delta Epsilon created a program of grants-in-aid to help women who had been away from careers in service of domestic responsibilities—giving preference to applicants who were 35 or older.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2014
We need to reinvent federal grants-in-aid to states, drain the federal for-profit contracting swamps and wring more public value from grants to nonprofits.
From Washington Post
During my Administration, total grants-in-aid to State and local governments have increased by more than 40 percent, from $68 billion in Fiscal Year 1977 to $96 billion in Fiscal Year 1981.
From State of the Union Address by Jimmy Carter
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