How to Use subsidize in a Sentence

subsidize

verb
Definition of subsidizenext
Synonyms for subsidizenext
  • The state subsidizes housing for low-income families.
  • She feels that private businesses should not be subsidized by taxpayers.
  • The company subsidizes health insurance for its employees.
  • The 22 percent service fee is, in a way, asking the customer to subsidize some of the costs, Flay says.
    — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Milton Friedman had an idea 20 years ago: Tax the schools rather than subsidize them.
    — Richard Vedder, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Amount the French government will subsidize the purchase of a new EV.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 5 July 2023
  • Could taxpayers, expected to subsidize the project to the tune of $1.35 billion, be on the hook for even more if the project goes belly-up?
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • And the public is subsidizing much (over eight times) more of the transportation-fuel E-85 mix.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
  • So for years, U.S. Soccer has subsidized nanny care on road trips.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • The Downey Unified School District helped subsidize financing for the game.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • That program, which is subsidized by FEMA, is now more than $20 billion in debt.
    — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Energy prices are so high here that the government stepped in to cap and subsidize home heating bills so that people wouldn’t freeze in their flats.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The vaccine is not subsidized in Egypt, leaving it as a luxury only the wealthy can afford.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
  • If state government subsidizes the project or builds it itself, that could reduce the price of in-state pipeline gas to as little as $7.30, the report found.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Democrats have argued that the federal government needs to take a much stronger hand in subsidizing care.
    — Jordan Rau, Fortune Well, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Eighty percent of the money would be used to subsidize electric cars and charging stations, with the rest going to wildfire safety.
    — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • To help subsidize the family’s meager income, Pelé shined shoes as a child.
    — Liz Clarke, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The risk for parents of subsidizing adult children Of course, how a parent feels about the need for their child to pay their own bills and what a parent does may be two very different things.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Others spoke of the importance of sending teenage campers to Israel and shared details of RootOne, the initiative to jump-start and subsidize teen travel to Israel.
    — Howard Blas, Sun Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Some are volunteers in the literal sense, burning through their savings to subsidize their work.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Even on other orders, TikTok is subsidizing a large portion of the shipping costs too.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Those payments helped subsidize other teams on campus that don’t generate enough revenue to cover their costs, which is just about all of them.
    — Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Advertisement The Dodgers might be unlikely to subsidize a park-and-ride program.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s a third program tied into the law as well: the Local Capital Projects Fund, which the state has used to help subsidize local housing authorities.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The Senate President Matt Huffman is on the record, is being against subsidizing childcare.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Their efforts paid off this week, as the county board of commissioners agreed to buy the apartment complex for $48.5 million, half of the cost paid with funds from the state housing department, and keep rents subsidized.
    — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Plus, the Great Recession led to austere governments looking to fines and fees to subsidize even the most basic government services.
    — Courtney E. Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Now the push is on to reform the federal government program that subsidizes sugar farmers.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Two centuries later, Caesar Augustus started a lottery to subsidize repairs for the city of Rome.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • These investments are being subsidized by the Biden administration, which has put EVs at the center of its efforts to fight climate change.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023

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