- money that is paid by a government or an organization to reduce the costs of services or of producing goods so that their prices can be kept low
- agricultural subsidies
- to reduce the level of subsidy
Collocations FarmingFarmingGrowing food and raising animals- plant trees/seeds/crops/vines/barley
- grow/produce corn/wheat/rice/fruit
- plough/(North American English) plow land/a field
- sow/harvest seeds/crops/fields
- spread manure/fertilizer on something
- cultivate/irrigate/water/contaminate crops/plants/fields/land
- damage/destroy/lose your crop
- ripen/pick fruit/berries/grapes
- press/dry/ferment grapes
- grind/thresh grain/corn/wheat
- raise/rear/keep chickens/poultry/cattle/pigs
- raise/breed/feed/graze livestock/cattle/sheep
- kill/slaughter livestock
- preserve/smoke/cure/salt meat
- run a fish farm/an organic dairy farm
- engage in/be involved in intensive (pig/fish) farming
- use/apply (chemical/organic) fertilizer/insecticides/pesticides
- begin/do/conduct field trials of GM (= genetically modified) crops
- grow/develop GM crops/seeds/plants/foods
- fund/invest in genetic engineering/research
- improve/increase crop yields
- face/suffer from/alleviate food shortages
- label food that contains GMOs (= genetically modified organisms)
- eliminate/reduce farm subsidies
- oppose/be against factory farming/GM food
- promote/encourage/support organic/sustainable farming
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyc1- Export subsidies have been reduced by 20 per cent.
- The Arts Council granted them a small subsidy.
- The help that the government gives the industry amounts to an indirect subsidy.
- The EU spends billions on subsidies to farmers every year.
- protests against the removal of subsidies on basic commodities
- state subsidies for rice producers
- subsidies on basic goods and services
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- generous
- heavy
- …
- amount
- level
- get
- receive
- lose
- …
- payments
- scheme
- system
- …
- subsidy for
- subsidy on
- subsidy to
- …
- a cut in subsidies
- a reduction in subsidies
- the abolition of subsidies
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French subsidie, from Latin subsidium ‘assistance’.Definitions on the go
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