grant-aidedadj.
Of a school or other institution: assisted by an allowance from government or official funds.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [adjective] > maintained or retained by subsidies
subsidiary1658
subsidial1698
aided1832
grant-aided1927
1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales 120 Grant-aided secondary schools.
1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 18 Oct. 436/4 One-quarter of the grant-aided schools were now co-educational.
1933 Planning 1 xii. 8 In road transport the adoption after the war of a national system of classified numbering and a policy of rapid grant-aided development opened the way to a national policy for road transport.
1959 20th Cent. Nov. 345 Independent Television..is no less concerned with programmes on current affairs than the grant-aided corporation.
Derivatives
grant-aid n. short for grant-in-aid n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > subsidy by a state > sum granted to a school, etc.
grant-in-aid1881
grant-aid1943
1943 Our Towns. A Close-up iii. 96 The Board [of Education] should..ensure, by special grant-aid if necessary, the observance of a minimum standard of hygiene.
1944 H. C. Dent Educ. Act 1944 71 A point of interest is that for the first time the Minister is empowered to grant-aid educational research.
grant-aid v. [as a back-formation] (transitive) to afford financial support of this kind to (a school, etc.).
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1944 H. C. Dent Educ. Act 1944 72 Special agreement schools will, under Clause 102, be grant-aided in accordance with the special agreement in respect of each school.
grant-aiding adj.
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1962 Economist 13 Oct. 148/2 The function..will be largely that of a grant-aiding body.
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