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Subvention   Listen
noun
Subvention  n.  
1.
The act of coming under. "The subvention of a cloud."
2.
The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
3.
A government aid or bounty.





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"Subvention" Quotes from Famous Books



... that without subvention, the Odeon will be in no condition to put on well a literary play such as Aisse, and that you should not let them murder it. You had better wait and see what happens. As for the Berton company, I have no news of it; it is touring ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
... the first satisfactory specimens upon a fairly large scale. He is, indeed, a more satisfactory, because a more independent, example of the new species than the Great Cham himself. The late Professor Beljame has shown us how the milieu was created in which, with no subvention, whether from a patron, a theatre, a political paymaster, a prosperous newspaper or a fashionable subscription-list, an independent writer of the mid-eighteenth century, provided that he was competent, could begin to extort ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett


Words linked to "Subvention" :   subsidy, supplying, guarantee, subvent, undertake, provision, supply


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