{
    "term": "subsidy",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "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",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "agricultural subsidies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to reduce the level of subsidy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Export subsidies have been reduced by 20 per cent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Arts Council granted them a small subsidy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The help that the government gives the industry amounts to an indirect subsidy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The EU spends billions on subsidies to farmers every year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "protests against the removal of subsidies on basic commodities"
                },
                {
                    "text": "state subsidies for rice producers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "subsidies on basic goods and services"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "generous", "heavy"],
                "… of subsidy": ["amount", "level"],
                "verb + subsidy": ["get", "receive", "lose"],
                "subsidy + noun": ["payments", "scheme", "system"],
                "preposition": ["subsidy for", "subsidy on", "subsidy to"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a cut in subsidies",
                    "a reduction in subsidies",
                    "the abolition of subsidies"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌbsədi/",
                "audio": "su/subsidy/subsidy__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌbsədi/",
                "audio": "su/subsidy/subsidy__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French subsidie, from Latin subsidium ‘assistance’."
}