FINANCIAL AID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does financial aid mean? 

• FINANCIAL AID (noun)
  The noun FINANCIAL AID has 1 sense:

1. gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause

  Familiarity information: FINANCIAL AID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINANCIAL AID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

aid; assistance; economic aid; economic assistance; financial aid; financial assistance

Context example:

economic assistance to depressed areas

Hypernyms ("financial aid" is a kind of...):

gift (something acquired without compensation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "financial aid"):

public assistance; social welfare; welfare (governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need)

philanthropic gift; philanthropy (voluntary promotion of human welfare)

scholarship (financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit)

fellowship (money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research)

foreign aid (aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another)

grant (any monetary aid)

grant-in-aid (a grant to a person or school for some educational project)

traineeship (financial aid that enables you to get trained for a specified job)

 Context examples 

If you hope to receive a grant, scholarship, or generous financial aid, put in your application in December.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There were a dozen requests for autographs—he knew them at sight; there were professional begging letters; and there were letters from cranks, ranging from the man with a working model of perpetual motion, and the man who demonstrated that the surface of the earth was the inside of a hollow sphere, to the man seeking financial aid to purchase the Peninsula of Lower California for the purpose of communist colonization.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So, for example, if you want to buy a house, you would need a mortgage from the bank, and if you plan to go to college, you would likely need financial aid.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You may have enviable financial aid for college tuition or even a scholarship.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This new moon will light your eighth house of other people’s money, ruling such areas as venture capital, mortgage, court settlements, insurance claims, university financial aid, commissions, bonuses, royalties, and similar funds that tend to come to you outside of salary and that require an application (or business plan to show investors).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Finally, if you put in a claim to your insurance company, apply for financial aid for college tuition, are in a court case, or hope to negotiate the fair division of property in a divorce, this full moon of February 8-9 could help you get close to reaching a pleasing answer.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you want to go back to the university for more studies, apply for financial aid or a scholarship, and don’t assume you would never get it—you are holding all the aces.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The area of your life that will be accented will be other people’s money—commissions, royalties, cash advances, gifts, insurance payouts, bonuses, venture capital, scholarships and university financial aid, mortgages and bank loans, inheritances, and money like that.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is the kind of money that would arrive in a bundle, such as a commission, royalty, bonus, inheritance, or as a mortgage, student loan or university financial aid, bank loan, venture capital, or insurance payout for a claim, as some examples.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Specifically, you will do well in one or more of these areas—by a payment of commission, royalty, cash advance, licensing fee, bonus, or such outside sources as an inheritance, insurance claim payment, scholarship or university financial aid, bank loan or line of credit, venture capital, credit card, mortgage or refinanced mortgage, divorce or court settlement, or prize winnings.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)