direct subsidy

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectandsubsidy

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping 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 ofdirectandsubsidyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is also found that a subsidy to the financial sector may have larger growth effects than adirectsubsidyto research.
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Only some umbrella organisations, under carefully defined conditions, receivedirectsubsidyfrom the central government.
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However, thedirectsubsidycost to donors is substantially higher than for eco-forestry because, in contrast to eco-forestry, it generates no financial return.
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Scenario 3 calculates the effects of adirectsubsidyto fertilizer usage.
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In addition, a subsidy to financial intermediation may be more effective than adirectsubsidyto research.
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Furthermore, it is shown thatdirectsubsidyof research may reduce the growth rate of the economy.
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Adirectsubsidyfor forestry conservation would need to be distributed to the customary owners in proportion to their resource ownership.
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Thus, a subsidy to capital accumulation may be preferable in terms of growth to adirectsubsidyto research.
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This is because income is self-generated by the group, allowing the amount of eco-forestry subsidy to fall to only a quarter of that required fordirectsubsidy.
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Anything that can be done to try to move it away from adirectsubsidyand back on to the consumer will help enormously.
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These advances, of course, have never involved any question ofdirectsubsidy.
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But adirectsubsidyof the kind proposed would not be appropriate.
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I have decided, therefore, to restore the grants so far as thedirectsubsidyto a society is concerned.
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It is not merely a question of thedirectsubsidythat the farmer is allowed, though that is important.
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Should we not add to the hugedirectsubsidythat farmers receive the massive extra burden borne by consumers to protect farmers from foreign produce?
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He knows that a policy ofdirectsubsidyby the public sector has been a disaster in terms of advancing the manufacturing base.
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Therefore, it is adirectsubsidy, and you have no check whatever.
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But this proposal can be distinguished completely from anydirectsubsidy.
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In that case, it will do it by the very crude method ofdirectsubsidy.
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If meter surpluses are used to help to pay for operating the car parks, then there is adirectsubsidy.
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