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
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
And when purged of careerism, Congress can cure its addiction to grants-in-aid and other bad habits.
From Washington Post
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
