state aid
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noun
financial support extended by a state government to a local institution serving the public, as a school or library.
Nearby words
stat., statampere, statant, statcoulomb, state, state aid, state attorney, state bank, state bird, state capitalism, state chamber
Origin of state aid
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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Examples from the Web for state aid
The need for a representative system in the organs of the different forms of state-aid to labour is quite another matter.
The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection|Albert Eberhard Friedrich SchffleLet us also remember that it represents the application of State-aid to economic development.
The Framework of Home Rule|Erskine ChildersNeither charity nor the present limited State-aid touch the larger question.
Race Improvement : or, Eugenics : a Little Book on a Great Subject|La Reine Helen BakerThey believed that on its success depended the future of State-aid for the unemployed.
From Workhouse to Westminster|George Haw