SUBSIDIZE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of subsidize in English

(Definition of subsidize from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of subsidize from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of subsidize from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of subsidize

subsidize
First, pricing and other policies that artificially 'subsidize' the returns to conversion activities on forest land or the costs of conversion need to be reformed.
Earmarking of financial resources to subsidize environmental investments is controversial, and the pros and cons need to be weighed in each specific case.
In the past, all energy sectors have been at least partially subsidized.
The government has been subsidizing the irrigation sector substantially.
Similarly, governments sometimes subsidize certain groups with money borrowed at the expense of future taxpayers.
Most countries began to intrude into the doctor-patient relationship by subsidizing non-governmental insurers, rather than financing services.
Historical dictionaries are just not commercially viable, and have to be subsidized in some way by university research projects.
Additionally, offsetting of profits between time periods does not subsidize farmers who regularly produce very high incomes from organic farming with little fluctuation.
The idea of subsidizing "social insurance" through the federal budget was considered inadequate.
As a consequence, the city rapidly developed into a thriving, and heavily subsidized, centre of cultural activity.
And hybrid plans generally do not subsidize workers who elect to retire early.
Clinicians and vendors of drugs and equipment (and the disease-specific advocacy groups they subsidize) also attack economic evaluation studies.
Private financing of health care is therefore either heavily subsidized or supplemented with governmental resources.
The simulation results, however, do offer policymakers a guideline in allocating their limited annual budget to subsidize aquaculture industry once certain environmental goals are set.
Such a disparity practically amounts to subsidizing some crops or taxing others and distorts the input-output decisions of farmers.
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Translations of subsidize

in Chinese (Traditional)
給予…津貼(或補貼), 資助…
in Chinese (Simplified)
给予…津贴(或补贴), 资助…
in Spanish
subvencionar…
in Portuguese
subsidiar…
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malî destek sağlamak, sübvanse etmek, mali destek sağlamak…
subventionner…
subsidiëren…
subvencovat…
subsidiere, give statsstøtte…
memberi subsidi…
ให้ความช่วยเหลือด้านการเงิน…
trợ cấp, bao cấp…
dotować…
subventionera…
diberi subsidi…
subventionieren…
gi (stats)støtte til, subsidiere…
субсидувати…
субсидировать, дотировать…
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