subsidize
verb (used with object)
to furnish or aid with a subsidy.
had been subsidizing
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past perfect progressiveof subsidize.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Last June Congress abrogated all 31 ocean mail contracts by which the U. S. Government had been subsidizing U. S. shipping at an annual cost of $20,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alan Clark indignantly claimed that the government had been "subsidizing the extravagant life-style of a lot of American con men."
From Time Magazine Archive
