What's the difference between subvent and subvention?
Subvent
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Subvention
Definition:
(n.) The act of coming under.
(n.) The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
(n.) A government aid or bounty.
(v. t.) To subventionize.
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(1) A system for providing a measure of food security, using insurance principles and based on a compromise between international stockpiling and direct financial subventions, is outlined in a recent publication of the International Food Policy Research Institute.
(2) American cities fund their budgets from their own tax base, with only limited subventions from state or federal government.
(3) He can gather up his subventions and subsidies, as well as his MPs, and take the lot of them back over Hadrian’s Wall, leaving behind little more than a concept of citizenship and some joint services.
(4) We asked for the subvention three years ago and we go from the ministry of health, then to the ministry of finance and back again.
(5) "Our revenues are down by about 20% and that's because our money comes from two sources, taxes included in electricity bills which have dropped with the closure of enterprises and shops, and subventions from the state."
(6) Yet economic constraints dictate that subventions for teaching and research remain static or even decrease as student populations increase.
(7) Neurons expressing both TH and PR were detected in the rostral hypothalamus, lateral to the third ventricle (A11-rostral) and in a discrete subventricular population (A11-subvent).
(8) When it was mooted to the SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon last month that Scotland win full budgetary independence – with no London subvention – she understandably blanched.
(9) A more concrete commitment on the part of government in the form of legislation or subvention is suggested in order to ease some of the stress on the parents of multiples.
(10) While News Corp will retain its existing 39.1% stake, the small resulting company with its independent chairman will be heavily reliant on a £40m a year subvention from Murdoch's enlarged company, rather in the way that ITN, 40% owned by ITV, is heavily dependant on its relationship with the X Factor broadcaster.
(11) The A11-subvent population exhibited little steroid regulation.