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unsubsidized

American  
[uhn-suhb-si-dahyzd] / ʌnˈsʌb sɪˌdaɪzd /

adjective

  1. not funded or assisted by a subsidy.


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The sector is also relatively insulated from higher gas prices, with unsubsidized gas—the fuel most closely linked to Brent crude oil—accounting for about 9% of Malaysia’s power generation fuel costs, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 27, 2026

The difference between subsidized and unsubsidized loans can translate into thousands of dollars in interest costs.

From MarketWatch Oct. 31, 2025

By leaving out a discussion of ways to loosen the housing market for tenants, the report misses a crucial, and largely unsubsidized, element to limit the flow of people into homelessness, Ward said.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2024

But the most common are direct subsidized and unsubsidized loans, which are taken by the person who is completing the college degree.

From Seattle Times Aug. 15, 2023

Besides these there are other companies engaged in the coasting and river traffic, either with subsidies from the state governments, as feeders for railway lines, or as private unsubsidized undertakings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

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