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FOREIGN AID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does foreign aid mean?
• FOREIGN AID (noun)
The noun FOREIGN AID has 1 sense:
1. aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another
Familiarity information: FOREIGN AID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("foreign aid" is a kind of...):
aid; assistance; economic aid; economic assistance; financial aid; financial assistance (gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Instance hyponyms:
European Recovery Program; Marshall Plan (a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952); named after George Marshall)
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