SUBVENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subvent mean? 

• SUBVENT (verb)
  The verb SUBVENT has 1 sense:

1. guarantee financial support of

  Familiarity information: SUBVENT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBVENT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Guarantee financial support of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

subvent; subvention; underwrite

Context example:

The opera tour was subvented by a bank

Hypernyms (to "subvent" is one way to...):

guarantee; undertake (promise to do or accomplish)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

subvention (the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort)

subvention (grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution)