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Noun: subsidisation  ,súb-su-dI'zey-shun
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: subsidization)
  1. The act of providing a subsidy
    "The government's subsidisation of farmers helped maintain food prices";
    - grant, subsidization
     
  2. Money (or other benefits) obtained as a subsidy
    "The farmer received subsidisation for growing certain crops";
    - subsidization

Derived forms: subsidisations

Type of: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, boodle [informal], brass [Brit, informal], bread [informal], cabbage [US, informal], clams [US, informal], coin [US, informal], dibs [archaic, informal], dinero [N. Amer, informal], dosh [Brit, informal], dough [informal], gelt [informal], kale [US, informal], lettuce [US, informal], lolly [Brit, informal], loot [informal], lucre [informal], mazuma [US, informal], money, moola [N. Amer, informal], moolah [N. Amer, informal], parceling [US], parcelling, pelf [archaic, informal], scratch [informal], shekels [informal], simoleons [US, informal], spondulicks [Brit, informal], spondulix [Brit, informal], sugar [informal], wampum [N. Amer, informal], wonga [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Subsidisation