Definitions of subsidy

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Money granted by one government to another; a government grant of money to aid a private enterprise.

4. Assistance: aid in money: a sum of money paid by one state to another for assistance in war: public money given in aid of enterprises of great and semi- public importance, such as railroads, steamship lines, etc.

5. Aid in money.

6. Pecuniary aid.

7. Aid in money granted from one state to another by treaty for aid in war; money furnished in aid and for a particular purpose.