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
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of grant-in-aid
First recorded in 1880–85
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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
It is quite certain that not the smallest odium would attach to the acceptance of a Liberal grant-in-aid.
From The History of the Fabian Society by Edward R. Pease
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
The schools don’t want it, but four-year athletic grants-in-aid are now permissible.
From Slate ● May 17, 2012
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
Madison 113Triumph of Hamiltonian theory 113Security Act Cases, The 115Earmarked funds 116Conditional grants-in-aid 116"Debts of the United States" 116Clause 2.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin
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