subsidy
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The writer-director’s 2022 feature debut, “Plan 75,” imagined an unsettling future in which the elderly are offered a subsidy by the government to be euthanized.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
All-you-can-eat subscriptions amounted to a subsidy by the model-makers, which often lost money on the intensive activity of power users.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The subsidy cut caused prices to rocket, prompting filling stations to sell contaminated fuel.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
The government offers some people a subsidy; on certain government benefits a Funeral Expenses Payment, can help cover some of the costs.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Public subsidy allowed formats that had become financially unviable - such as the nineteenth-century symphony orchestra - to prosper somewhat artificially in the twentieth century, justified by the preservation of heritage.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing subsidy
Fast Food Nation
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The Great Depression and The New Deal
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