noun
definition
A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
definition
The act of coming under.
definition
The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
verb
definition
To subsidise.
Examples of subvention in a Sentence
The government paid the company a subvention of f3935 monthly.
The poorer communes are aided by a state subvention.
Spain, which was bound by treaty to join Napoleon, was allowed to preserve a show of neutrality by paying a monthly subvention.
Technical instruction is provided by the polytechnic school (1829), which is a state institution, and the school of the Technical Society, which, though a private foundation, enjoys public subvention.
The annual expenditure was over 26,000,000, of which sum 7,500,000 was provided by state subvention.
In granting a concession for a new railway the practice is to give it to the company that offers to construct it with the lowest subvention.
The primary schools for both sexes are kept up by the municipalities, at an annual cost of about 1,000,000, to which the state contributes a small subvention.
Apart from its share of taxation Northern Ireland received a subvention from the Westminster Parliament.
An immediate effect of this would be to reduce the subvention to Northern and Westminster.
The Association paid a subvention of £ 150 to JACT in respect of administration costs.
The north's economy continued to be kept artificially afloat by the huge annual subvention from the taxpayer.
There will be a travel subvention of up to £ 550.
By a law passed by the French chambers in 1902 a subvention of £20,000 a year for fifty years was granted to the company owning the railway (see further Abyssinia).
The north 's economy continued to be kept artificially afloat by the huge annual subvention from the taxpayer.
The first phase of the subvention reform made subsidized care available to those born in 1946-1955 from 1 st April 2001.
State subvention will be an essential part of any program.
But the Bagdad Railway Company' (the share capital of which is £600,000 half paid up), naturally anxious to earn the whole of the capitalized subvention, completed the construction of the entire 200 kilometres.
The local chief accepted this change on condition that he should retain his local authority, and receive a yearly subvention of 1000 until 1870.
In 1905 imports into Kaiser Wilhelms Land were valued at £33,316, and exports at £7702, and the estimated expenditure for1907-1908of £76,000 included an imperial subvention of £57,696.
The governor-general represents the territories in civil affairs; the budget is distinct from that of Algeria and an annual subvention is provided by France.
Before it he exposed the deficit in the treasury, and proposed the establishment of a subvention territoriale, which should be levied on all property without distinction.
At the same time special privileges were granted to articles imported by sea, so as to foster the trade of Trieste and Fiume; as in Germany a subvention was granted to the great shipping companies, the Austrian Lloyd and Adria; the area of the Customs Union was enlarged so as to include Trieste, Istria and Dalmatia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This transplantation of plaice in Denmark has been annually repeated for several years with the most successful results, and a suitable subvention to the cost is now an annual charge upon the government funds.
Mission work among the Indians is entrusted to the Propaganda Fide, which has five colleges and a large number of missions, and receives a small subvention from the state.
His maiden speech, on the subvention to the king of Sardinia, was made on the 3rst of January 1794.
He advocated as the true reform, against the scheme of entrusting elections to the members of the senate, the use of college funds and the subvention of scientific and professorial work.
Its large revenues, derived to a great extent from house property in Leipzig and estates in Saxony, enable it, in conjunction with a handsome state subvention, to provide rich endowments for the professorial chairs.