grant-in-aid
noun
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.
grants-in-aid
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pluralof grant-in-aid.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Conversely, proponents of grants-in-aid maintain that the many programs and projects made possible by grants-in-aid offset any negatives associated with the funds.
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
For medical education, I have recommended legislation authorizing grants-in-aid to public and nonprofit institutions.
From State of the Union Address by Harry S. Truman
