See also:SUBSIDY (through Fr. from See also:Lat. subsidium, reserve troops, aid, assistance, from subsidere, literally " to sit or remain behind or in reserve,")
, an aid, subvention, assistance granted especially in See also:money
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The word has a particular use in economic histpry and practice
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In See also:English See also:history it is the See also:general See also:term for a tax granted to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king by See also:parliament, and so distinguished from those dues, such as the customs dues, which were raised by the royal See also:prerogative; of these subsidies there were many varieties; such was the See also:subsidy in excess of the customs on See also:wool, See also:leather, See also:wine or See also:cloth exported or imported by aliens, later extended to other articles and to native exporters and importers (see See also:TONNAGE AND POUNDAGE); there was also the subsidy which in the 14th See also:century took the See also:place of the old feudal levies
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Apart from this application the term, in See also:modern times, is particularly applied to the pecuniary assistance by means of bounties, &c., given by the See also:state to See also:industrial undertakings (see See also:BOUNTY)
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Subsidies granted by the state to See also:literary, dramatic or other See also:artistic institutions, See also:societies, &c., are generally styled " subventions
(See also:Lat. subvenire, to come to the aid of)
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