huge subsidy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhugeandsubsidy
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huge
adjective
uk/hjuːdʒ/us/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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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 ofhugeandsubsidyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The total revenues collected from user charges form only 4 per cent of the government's health expenditure, which represents ahugesubsidy.
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That is all very well, but it involves ahugesubsidy.
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This is being done with ahugesubsidyso as to preclude competition from the traditional suppliers to that region.
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The railway companies have been made engines for extracting from the public ahugesubsidyfor their men.
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We have heard some complicated calculations suggesting that this is ahugesubsidyto landlords.
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Ahugesubsidyis being spent to maintain the rail system.
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Ahugesubsidyof something like £5·4 billion a year is paid in housing benefit.
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There is ahugesubsidyfor nuclear power and nothing for renewables.
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We have ahugesubsidygranted for ten years to the sugar industry.
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They do not have higher costs that justify thehugesubsidy.
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That is ahugesubsidyfor a relatively small industry, employing about 12,000 people.
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The mathematics show that without ahugesubsidyit would cost an enormous amount of taxpayers' money.
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I hope we were no parties officially to thishugesubsidyfor a super-luxurious liner which will carry none but millionaires.
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If it were adopted, the public sector would make ahugesubsidyto every child in a private school throughout the country.
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I wonder how much of thishugesubsidyis attributable to the fact that the railways quote uneconomic rates when they are in competition with coastwise shipping?
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That is ahugesubsidy.
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Despite thishugesubsidy, a high proportion of the 3.5 million people who have gone on a personal pension gamble will end up with grossly inadequate pensions.
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It has causedhugesubsidyburden on state exchequer, loss of labor, loss of productivity, high taxes, impact on economic reforms etc.
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Liberalization should apply to all energy sectors, particularly the nuclear sector where there are huge subsidies from some states.
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