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{
"term": "subsidy",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "money that is paid by a government or an organization to reduce the costs of services or of producing goods so that their prices can be kept low",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "agricultural subsidies"
},
{
"text": "to reduce the level of subsidy"
},
{
"text": "Export subsidies have been reduced by 20 per cent."
},
{
"text": "The Arts Council granted them a small subsidy."
},
{
"text": "The help that the government gives the industry amounts to an indirect subsidy."
},
{
"text": "The EU spends billions on subsidies to farmers every year."
},
{
"text": "protests against the removal of subsidies on basic commodities"
},
{
"text": "state subsidies for rice producers"
},
{
"text": "subsidies on basic goods and services"
}
],
"topics": ["Money"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "generous", "heavy"],
"… of subsidy": ["amount", "level"],
"verb + subsidy": ["get", "receive", "lose"],
"subsidy + noun": ["payments", "scheme", "system"],
"preposition": ["subsidy for", "subsidy on", "subsidy to"],
"phrases": [
"a cut in subsidies",
"a reduction in subsidies",
"the abolition of subsidies"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsʌbsədi/",
"audio": "su/subsidy/subsidy__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsʌbsədi/",
"audio": "su/subsidy/subsidy__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French subsidie, from Latin subsidium ‘assistance’."
}