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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.

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Origin of state aid

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

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 Schffle
Let us also remember that it represents the application of State-aid to economic development.
The Framework of Home Rule|Erskine Childers
Neither 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 Baker
They believed that on its success depended the future of State-aid for the unemployed.
From Workhouse to Westminster|George Haw