Hypertext Webster Gateway: "subsidized"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Subsidize \Sub"si*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Subsidized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Subsidizing}.] [From {Subsidy}.]
To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by
the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private
enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship
line.

He employed the remittances from Spain to subsidize a
large body of German mercenaries. --Prescott.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

subsidized
adj : having partial financial support from public funds; "lived
in subsidized public housing" [syn: {subsidised}]


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