SUBVENTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subvention mean? 

• SUBVENTION (noun)
  The noun SUBVENTION has 2 senses:

1. grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution

2. the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort

  Familiarity information: SUBVENTION used as a noun is rare.

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

1. guarantee financial support of

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBVENTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("subvention" is a kind of...):

subsidy (a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public)

Derivation:

subvent (guarantee financial support of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act or process of providing aid or help of any sort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("subvention" is a kind of...):

provision; supply; supplying (the activity of supplying or providing something)

Derivation:

subvent (guarantee financial support of)

• SUBVENTION (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 "subvention" is one way to...):

guarantee; undertake (promise to do or accomplish)

Sentence frames:

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