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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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
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
They attended LIU as the first grant-in-aid athletes in the soccer program under new coach Gary Rosenthal, helping turn a team that hadn’t won a game in two years into a nationally respected side.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017
I am also indebted to the Louisiana State University Committee on Faulty Research for a grant-in-aid.
From A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 by George H. Lowery.
The history of grants-in-aid goes back more than 200 years, to the period before the Constitution.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
As noted, the financing of higher education — the great equalizer — has been shifted dramatically from grants-in-aid and cheap public universities to high tuitions and burdensome student loans.
From Salon ● May 5, 2013
The schools don’t want it, but four-year athletic grants-in-aid are now permissible.
From Slate ● May 17, 2012
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 not only launched the system of federal grants-in-aid in low-income schools, it was also a central part of the president’s War on Poverty.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2011
On the 30th of October the fleet returned to Messina, where Cervantes went into hospital, and during his convalescence received grants-in-aid amounting to eighty-two ducats.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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