Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A giving of federal funds to a state or local government to subsidize a public project.
- noun A giving of funds to an institution or a person in order to subsidize a project or program.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
giving ofnational funds tosubsidize alocal orregional project . - noun Providing funds to an
institution (such as aschool ) orperson to subsidize a specific project or activity, such as ascholarship .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a grant to a person or school for some educational project
- noun a grant from a central government to a local government
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Examples
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Some of the extra income gained could also be allocated to proper inclusion strategies and grant-in-aid funds relocated to support our provincial collections.
We need to start charging for museums and galleries again | Tristram Hunt 2011
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Barik, a laboratory attendant in the Chemistry department of JM College in Kuanpal, had moved the Education Tribunal for grant-in-aid against his post.
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However, a spokesman told Variety that this should still leave the organisation with some £14. 5m in grant-in-aid, once inflation had been taken into account.
Spending review cuts British Film Institute budget by 15% Ben Child 2010
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ACE announced today that it had agreed its implementation plan to reduce Arts Council England's grant-in-aid budget from £449m to £349m by 2015, as directed in the government's spending review.
'Lighter than expected' cuts to publishing funding Benedicte Page 2010
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Barik, a laboratory attendant in the Chemistry department of JM College in Kuanpal, had moved the Education Tribunal for grant-in-aid against his post.
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Curatorial budgets are collapsing and recent cuts to grant-in-aid funding shows the dangers of over-reliance upon the state.
We need to start charging for museums and galleries again | Tristram Hunt 2011
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The Arts Council received a 29.6% cut in its grant-in-aid from central government at the last comprehensive spending review, making heavy cuts inevitable, although the council has promised not to "salami-slice" and to protect excellent organisations from the deepest cuts.
Arts Council told to sell off masterpieces in damning report by MPs 2011
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All grant-in-aid high schools will have a third peon
Orissa Government approves 30- 60% Pay Hike for Government Employees 2008
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All grant-in-aid high schools will have a third peon
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Some realms grant-in-aid player-versus-player disagreement wellnigh anywhere gold gold in the victim world.
Rob Zombie blogs again… young Michael Myers | We Are Movie Geeks 2009
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