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单词 grant-in-aid
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grant-in-aidn.

Etymology: grant n.1 3b.
A sum granted, esp. by a government or institution, to a school, institution, scholar, etc. Also attributive.
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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
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1881 W. E. Gladstone Speech at Leeds 7 Oct. I am an enemy of the present system of what are called grants in aid.
1890 G. B. Shaw Let. 26 Sept. (1965) I. 266 That the London Society shall make a grant-in-aid of £15.
1899 J. F. Youngson 40 Years Punjab Mission xxiii. 196 From fees and Government grants, according to the grant-in-aid system, the schools are in some cases self-supporting.
1906 Daily Chron. 21 May 7/4 Mr. Hart Davies suggests that in future there should be two kinds of schools—‘State’ schools and ‘grant-in-aid’ schools.
1941 Ann. Reg. 1940 260 The grant-in-aid from the British Government..was almost doubled.
1946 Nature 10 Aug. 208/2 It has been decided to adopt a scheme of senior research fellowships and grants-in-aid to operate over the next two years.
1955 Times 30 June 17/3 The grant-in-aid of $8,000,000 in goods and services under the U.S.A./Jordan pact of June, 1954, has done much to encourage the realization of these various plans.
1959 Notes & Queries Dec. 448 I am indebted to the University of Alabama Research Committee for a grant-in-aid which has enabled me to carry on research at Harvard University.
1971 Nature 12 Feb. 444/3 For the financial year 1970–71 the budget of the centre is £975,000, of which £589,000 is grant-in-aid.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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