subsidistn.

1869 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 9 Feb. The railroad subsidists are trying to drive an omnibus through Congress, but with little prospect of success.

1880 T. Kerslake Welsh in Dorset 29 Invaders would have a barren conquest without taxpayers and subsidists.

1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 1 Dec. 2 Stress has been laid by the subsidists on the fact that other nations have surpassed us in developing a merchant marine because they have paid subsidies while we have not.

1945 Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 2 Feb. 4/2 (heading) Subsidists seek to blast loophole in law.

1999 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 16 Oct. r10 Webby, an unabashed subsidist, says that a market-driven publishing industry does not deliver on its promise.

2007 B. Bradley New Amer. Story (2008) iii. x. 235 The supply-siders and the subsidists have defeated the Main Streeters on tax cuts, the deficit, and government subsidies.