- (n.) Support; aid; cooperation; especially, extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.
- (n.) A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.
- (n.) Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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