Definition of "subsidy"

subsidy

/ˈsʌbsɪdi/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural subsidies
1. Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
  Quotations
  British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
  2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
  You don't have to be Einstein to work out that this level of government subsidy is unsustainable.
  2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22
2. (dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.