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
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
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
Critics of grants-in-aid have long made this point.
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
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
During the past 3 years we have returned to State and local governments about $40 billion in grants-in-aid.
From State of the Union Address by Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) Johnson
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