subvention

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noun grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution
noun the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort
verb guarantee financial support of

From Middle French subvention, from Late Latin subventio, from Latin subvenio (assist).

In the Transvaal it is recognized as such by the Grondwet ("Fundamental Law"), and receives a Government subvention. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
His brother is our ambassador there, and he is appointed to act with him in some sort of diplomatic way, I suppose, to arrange what troops the Sultan is going to send against the French, and what we are to do to help him, and what subvention is to be paid him, and all that sort of thing. — At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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