state aid
- 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
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They believed that on its success depended the future of State-aid for the unemployed.
From Workhouse to WestminsterGeorge Haw
Neither charity nor the present limited State-aid touch the larger question.
Race Improvement : or, Eugenics : a Little Book on a Great SubjectLa Reine Helen Baker
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 ProtectionAlbert Eberhard Friedrich Schffle
Let us also remember that it represents the application of State-aid to economic development.
The Framework of Home RuleErskine Childers