[
UK
/səbvˈɛnʃən/
]
NOUN
- grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution
- the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort
VERB
-
guarantee financial support of
The opera tour was subvented by a bank
How To Use subvention In A Sentence
- The economic treatment of teacher refers to material rewards sa the payment, welfare, subvention, subsidy and bounty etc, legally given for teachers labour.
- This, and not the subventions of hegemonic states, is what will ultimately defeat both the secular tyrannies and the religious sectarians.
- The association is funded by an annual subvention from the government.
- The movie industry received a government subvention of several million pounds.
- In many instances the authorities are believed to have reduced the subvention, or state subsidy, payable to individual patients resident in nursing homes.
- Cutting subventions and stipends and increasing taxes and license fees - it seems the government is on a money-saving and revenue-generating path.
- The association is funded by an annual subvention from the government.
- Despite the national participation in equalization payments, adjustment grants, shared-cost programmes and subventions, in the past five years our region has received onequarter of a billion dollars in unemployment insurance benefits. New Brunswick1963
- They have also demanded a cut in the lower rates of income tax as a way of providing a subvention to the miserly wages paid by the corporations.
- At the same time, they sought a cut in the lower rates of income tax as a way of providing a state subvention to their workers' poverty-level wages.