Subvention

Quick meaning: Subvention is a noun meaning A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.

Meaning

A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.

More Meanings

1. To subsidise.
2. (obsolete) The act of coming under.
3. (archaic) The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.

Example Sentences

[…] the said religious shall […] pay all papal impositions, subventions, and contributions […]

[…] the Crown-Prince, contrary to wont, broke silence, and begged some dole or subvention for these poor people; but there was nothing to be had.

His task was, it is true, made easier by the need of the English to remove troops to put down the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising, which the French had subventioned.

[…] if we pray to God to remove a lesser judgement by way of subvention, questionlesse we may beseech him to deliver us from the great evill of a wounded conscience, by way of prevention.

Word Forms

• subventions
• subventioning
• subventioned

Synonyms for subvention

Depending on context, synonyms include subvent, subventionize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subsidised, subsidized, subsidization, subsidisation, subsidy, stipend.

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