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subsidies

Variant of subsidy

noun pl. subsidies

a grant of money; specif.,
  1. a grant of money from one government to another, as for military aid
  2. a government grant to a private enterprise considered of benefit to the public
  3. Historical in England, money granted by Parliament to the king

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