Synonyms for
Subsidized
Definition
To support financially, often with public funds.
Synonyms & similar words
Synonyms by register
Informal
Antonyms
Common collocations
- heavily subsidized
- partially subsidized
- government subsidized
- subsidized housing
- subsidized food
- subsidized education
- subsidized by the state
Word family
Usage note
This word implies financial assistance, often from a government or organization, to reduce costs. It is typically used in formal contexts related to economics, policy, or business.
Example sentences
- The company was subsidized by the government to help it grow.
- The farmer received a subsidy to plant more crops.
- The museum is subsidized by private donors.
- The city council voted to subsidize the new community center.
- The film industry is often subsidized by tax breaks.
Quotes
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson