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What is the verb for subsidy?

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subsidise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of subsidize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mr Sharpe said it was not fair to the membership of the society as a whole to subsidise a loss-making branch.”
      “Bolton-by-Bowland Post Office opened a tearoom as a sideline to subsidise the existing operation.”
      “Hopefully we will have some funds to subsidise special and deserving cases.”
subsidize
  1. (transitive) To assist someone or something by granting a subsidy.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Government must continue to subsidize social work and community development being performed by private groups.”
      “Companies that produce lots of carbon dioxide emissions sometimes purchase offsets to subsidize nonpolluting energy alternatives.”
      “We need to concentrate on those kind of jobs instead of trying to save low-level jobs that we have to subsidize to keep.”
subsidised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of subsidise
subsidized
subsidises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subsidise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Every time government subsidises a private school at the expense of a state school it helps the private sector to build its balance sheet.”
      “I think that the profit on drinks subsidises the cost of the food in a lot of places.”
      “The sports centre subsidises things like playing fields and football fields.”
subsidizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subsidize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Thus, government steps in and subsidizes premiums to encourage more farmers to join.”
      “The state of Alaska subsidizes electrical production in smaller communities through the Power Cost Equalization Fund.”
      “The Ministry of Culture subsidizes this event to the tune of 50,000 dinars per year.”
subsidising
  1. present participle of subsidise
  2. Examples:
    1. “It's cheap, if you're subsidising nuclear power to the hilt, and frankly we have whole slag heaps of it to dump.”
      “Essex County Council has also agreed to adopt roads and is also subsidising a bus service.”
      “The Bank of Scotland is subsidising Swan Lake, while the Royal is funding cut-price tickets for hordes of teenage lovers of opera and theatre.”
subsidizing
  1. present participle of subsidize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Due to the overlap between politics and business these banks have suffered heavy losses from subsidizing state-run enterprises and bad loans.”
      “Some states, by subsidizing exam costs, make the exams more widely and equitably available.”
      “Local taxes and surcharges on luxuries like theatre tickets were also reintroduced as a means of subsidizing hospitals.”
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