Sekirov Dictionary

subvention

/sʌbˈvɛnʃ(ə)n/

noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

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A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
- […] the said religious shall […] pay all papal impositions, subventions, and contributions […] — 1758
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(no longer used) The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
- […] 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. — 1647
(no longer used) The act of coming under.

verb1

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To subsidise.
- 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. — 2002

forms

subventioned · subventioning · subventions

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