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foreign aid

noun as in aid given by one nation to another

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To be sure, over the past 20 years, the democratically elected government and the sectors of the economy flush with foreign aid experienced a lot of corruption.

From Vox

The Clinton administration paired nonrecognition with meaningful foreign aid.

Battling its biggest health emergency since independence, India is gratefully accepting the help, having recently reversed a longstanding policy of refusing foreign aid.

From Time

Over the years, presidents have downplayed the role the Peace Corps plays in American life, and instead have used the organization to highlight their own foreign aid priorities.

Years of occupation and blockade have left Palestinians dependent on foreign aid to prop up their economy and health system.

Meanwhile, Rand Paul actually wants to end all U.S. foreign aid.

DNR leaders admitted that foreign aid workers in the Donetsk region had good reasons to be concerned about their safety.

People have no idea what we spend on foreign aid because no one ever tells them.

In most polls, when people are asked what percentage of its budget the United States spends on foreign aid, they say 25.

A crucial area where one might expect Craner and Paul to disagree is foreign aid.

The Libyans and Berbers probably never knew a grape-culture of their own without foreign aid.

But the disappointment of their hopes of foreign aid only drove the adherents of revolt in Ireland to a rising of despair.

I traveled all over the world and probably counteracted a billion dollars' worth of foreign aid.

Such recognition, if obtained, would be followed immediately by a demand for "foreign aid."

No other proposed route can claim foreign aid because of such good reasons.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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