Subvention

//sʌbˈvɛnʃ(ə)n// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A subsidy; provision of financial or other support. countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of coming under. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "1744, Thomas Stackhouse, A New History of the Holy Bible, London: Stephen Austen, 2nd edition, Volume 2, Book 6, Chapter 2, p. 845, Now the only Ascension that we read of, besides these, is that of our blessed Saviour; and the Manner, in which he is said to have been carry’d up, was, by the Subvention of a Cloud, which rais’d him from the Ground […]"

  4. 4
    grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "[…] 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."

Verb
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    guarantee financial support of wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French subvention, from Late Latin subventio, from Latin subvenio (assist).

Etymology 2

From Middle French subvention, from Late Latin subventio, from Latin subvenio (assist).

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