subsidize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb support through subsidies
    subsidise.
    • The arts in Europe are heavily subsidized
  2. verb secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces
    subsidise.

WordNet

Sub"si*dize transitive verb
Etymology
From Subsidy.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Subsidized ; present participle & verbal noun Subsidizing
Definitions
  1. To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line.
    He employed the remittances from Spain to subsidize a large body of German mercenaries. Prescott.

Webster 1913