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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of subsidise.
  • adjective that which receives subsidy.

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  • adjective having partial financial support from public funds

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Examples

  • They then digressed to mention a resident who lives in subsidised housing that poorer people would be very pleased to move in to: the Labour peer Baroness Uddin of Bethnal Green, who was among those who spoke in support of Rahman at the party celebrating his short-lived adoption as Labour's candidate.

    Tower Hamlets: Neil King, Peter Golds and the Conservative mayoral case Dave Hill 2010

  • There, after 10 years in subsidised public rental housing, households are required to declare household income biennially and rental levels can be adjusted up to market levels.

    Council housing can bind communities Chris Nicholson 2010

  • It really is about being subsidised, that is the only way the effects of risk are mitigated in these circumstances – by a transfer of wealth (which is effectively a subsidy with “no strings”).

    The Union Dividend Jeff 2007

  • As you say, there are separate issues about (1) planning, (2) Social/key worker (aka subsidised) housing and (3) immigration.

    Sir Ming's Madcap Scheme 2007

  • We're moving away from the idea of subsidised individual latrines that may or may not be sustainable.

    IPS Inter Press Service 2009

  • There is practically no private system to drain-off the brighter pupils, and where private schools do exist it is because they are specialist - such as Steiners, foreign language and the odd Christian school - but all are state subsidised, meaning all children have access to them.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • There is practically no private system to drain-off the brighter pupils, and where private schools do exist it is because they are specialist - such as Steiners, foreign language and the odd Christian school - but all are state subsidised, meaning all children have access to them.

    How Finland Triggers the Selective Perception of Sandy Kress Jim Horn 2009

  • As part of a project aimed at the development of call centres in five poor communities, a number of benefits – such as subsidised training and low cost building infrastructure – have been packaged for small businesses.

    ANC Today 2006

  • As part of a project aimed at the development of call centres in five poor communities, a number of benefits – such as subsidised training and low cost building infrastructure – have been packaged for small businesses.

    ANC Today 2006

  • Even then, fuel price subsidies should be avoided if basic needs can be addressed by alternatives, such as subsidised purchases of energy-efficient equipment.

    Chapter 10 2000

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