vast subsidy

collocation in English

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vast
adjective
uk
/vɑːst/us
/væst/
extremely ...
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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 ofvastandsubsidyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But it cannot do it except by avastsubsidysystem.
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They ask why the arts should enjoy thisvastsubsidy.
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In the circumstances, we are talking about avastsubsidyfrom taxpayers' money in some form to stop that flagging out taking place.
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I must refute the suggestion that there is avastsubsidy.
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Exactly the same may happen with the nuclear industry, and we may end up giving it avastsubsidyto prevent it from going under.
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No doubt if ratepayers and taxpayers continue to have to give avastsubsidyto council tenants many more people will want to enjoy that subsidy.
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One may well argue whether thevastsubsidywhich we are continually told is required if we are to have any level of bus service is something of a myth.
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We are handing over to the petrochemical companies concerned avastsubsidyfor doing what they would have done in any case and for projects that create no extra employment.
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I would not ask for avastsubsidyto be poured into the industry, but steps should be taken to help the industry to help itself.
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There are also some companies which are so inefficient that they cannot make proper profit, even with the vast subsidies that have been given.
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The old-age pensioners are aware that vast subsidies go to shipowners.
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These vast subsidies have to be paid for either out of increased taxation or out of increased borrowing, or worse still, by increased printing.
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Even poorer farmers who have hard lives in upland areas often receive vast subsidies.
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Is he aware that this ring has absorbed vast subsidies in the form of development contracts without giving an adequate return?
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Is it not the case that there are vast subsidies of public money concealed in these figures?
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In the 1970s and early 1980s, the industry made huge losses and required vast subsidies.
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Taxpayers can no longer afford to provide vast subsidies indiscriminately.
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As has already been said today, the story goes back as far as 1921—long before the railways were nationalised, and long before they became the recipients of vast subsidies.
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