heavy subsidy

collocation in English

meaningsofheavyandsubsidy

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heavy
adjective
uk
/ˈhev.i/us
/ˈhev.i/
weighing a lot, and needing effort to move ...
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subsidy
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsʌb.sɪ.di/us
/ˈsʌb.sə.di/
money given as part of the cost of something, to help or encourage it ...
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(Definition ofheavyandsubsidyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The coal industry's alreadyheavysubsidywill rise to more than $3 billion a year.
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It will give the illusion of profitability and conceal aheavysubsidy.
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I believe that the price of sugar would not necessarily be increased to the consumer because of theheavysubsidyon foreign sugar.
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There would also be a need for aheavysubsidyso that it could compete with ordinary diesel.
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That means, of course, that there will be no demand for such a publication and, therefore, that there must be aheavysubsidy.
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There has been a significant increase in the breeding flock, and the prospect is of continuing low market prices and aheavysubsidy.
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That would be absolutely impossible without thisheavysubsidyexpenditure.
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As a third of the labour force are women, the employer enjoys a veryheavysubsidyat their expense.
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Even if you got aheavysubsidy, it would be d completely uneconomic process.
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He has complained of theheavysubsidybill.
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There has been a significant increase in the breeding flock and the prospect is of continuing low market prices and aheavysubsidy.
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That is well below the guaranteed price and, therefore, will involve a veryheavysubsidybill.
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I hope that when he replies he will tell us why he considers aheavysubsidyof this kind to be necessary at all.
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French fabricators have received comprehensive insurance cover against inflation, amounting to aheavysubsidy.
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Either, it seems, it must be the consumer, through an increase of food prices, or it must be the taxpayer, by aheavysubsidy.
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Heavysubsidypayments by taxpayers at large could then be dispensed with.
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Even with a more normal pattern of marketing than we obtained in 1959–60, the prospect is undoubtedly of continuingheavysubsidy.
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Yes, but such services require aheavysubsidy, and as it will serve entirely local interests, the subsidy will have to come from local sources.
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Surely this is a veryheavysubsidyto industry?
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Whatever the figure, aheavysubsidyhas gone into coal.
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