indirect subsidy

collocation in English

meaningsofindirectandsubsidy

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indirect
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.daɪˈrekt/us
/ˌɪn.daɪˈrekt/
happening in addition to an intended result, often in a way that is complicated or ...
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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 ofindirectandsubsidyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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More important, the ministerial exemption is anindirectsubsidyfor discriminatory institutions: it permits them to escape civil penalties for otherwise illegal practices.
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In other plausible cases, theindirectsubsidyapproach would simply be unable to achieve habitat conservation objectives no matter how much funding were available.
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Public hospitals are reimbursed on the basis of official hospital charges set considerably below cost as anindirectsubsidyto social security.
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As we are opposed to any direct orindirectsubsidyseeking to use public money to generate private profit, we voted against this report.
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By the way, £74 million of that was for labour in various forms ofindirectsubsidy.
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The whole of our social reform legislation is anindirectsubsidyto wages.
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We admit that if we did not provide anindirectsubsidyof that kind we should not get the owner-occupier's problem satisfactorily solved.
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These are at specially low rates of interest and constitute anindirectsubsidy.
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I do not accept the argument that anindirectsubsidyrelieves the body which receives it of the need for accountability.
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Similarly, there is anindirectsubsidyto invisible exports, such as shipping and insurance.
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They give a direct subsidy for this thing, anindirectsubsidyfor that and what they call price insurance in respect of some other commodity.
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Are we going to give to agriculture cheap credit, and by that means give them some sort ofindirectsubsidy?
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All this represents anindirectsubsidyon house purchase.
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I have said that the consumer of bread is paying at the moment about£35,000,000 in anindirectsubsidyto the wheat production of this country.
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To make loans on the terms suggested would involve either a direct or anindirectsubsidy.
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That creates a different position, and represents anindirectsubsidywhich the railway companies did not have.
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I see nothing wrong withindirectsubsidyon that basis, as long as there is a guarantee of quality.
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Indirectsubsidyseems to me to be quite as important a matter of expenditure of public money as direct subsidy.
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Therefore, it would amount to anindirectsubsidy, and it is not the intention that that should be the case.
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I mean, why do we have to have thisindirectsubsidy?
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