subsidization

Government payment assistance

Subsidization is the act of providing financial support to reduce costs or keep prices low.

Governments subsidize industries, services, or commodities to make them more affordable or competitive: the subsidization of public transportation, agricultural subsidization.

The term often appears in policy debates about market interference: Critics argue that subsidization distorts free-market competition.

direct

payment

Fulfilling a financial obligation

grantBestow or award money
fundingSupplying monetary resources
allowanceFixed periodic payment

rebate · appropriation · disbursement · transfer · handout · allocation · outlay · remittance · cash transfer · voucher

Opposites

financial support direction

subsidizationtaxation

Compulsory government revenue collection

levying · defunding · taxing · penalization · divestment

market intervention type

subsidizationderegulation

Removing governmental business restrictions

laissez-faire · privatization · non-intervention

funding mechanism type

subsidizationlending

Temporary provision of resources

loaning · debt financing

Family

subside, subsidy, subsidiary, subsidize, subsiding, subsidence, subsidized, subsided, subsides

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