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		Definition of maintenance grant in English: maintenance grantnoun British A sum of money given by by an authority to an individual, especially a student in higher education, to help with living costs.  our son qualified for the maximum maintenance grant  Example sentencesExamples -  Up to 50,000 students will face delays of up to a month in receiving their maintenance grants at the start of the college year.
 -  This money will go toward maintenance grants and support for orphans.
 -  Most people have no idea that these students will not have to pay fees and will receive, for the first time for years, a substantial maintenance grant.
 -  She welcomed the increase in maintenance grant, which was long overdue.
 -  Even with the modest increase announced by the Minister, the level of maintenance grant is still totally inadequate to cover the basic living costs of a student.
 -  The media will ask if Scottish Labour candidates support maintenance grants.
 -  But more seriously the key to the government reforms is that maintenance grants will be restored to those from the poorest backgrounds.
 -  He had been means-tested for the £2500-a-year maintenance grant when he was on the dole.
 -  When I left university my tuition fees had been paid for me, I'd had a maintenance grant, and I'd borrowed a series of cheap student loans from the Government.
 -  Mr Clarke will also announce the restoration of means-tested maintenance grants for poorer students.
 
    Definition of maintenance grant in US English: maintenance grantnoun British A sum of money given by by an authority to an individual, especially a student in higher education, to help with living costs.  our son qualified for the maximum maintenance grant  Example sentencesExamples -  The media will ask if Scottish Labour candidates support maintenance grants.
 -  He had been means-tested for the £2500-a-year maintenance grant when he was on the dole.
 -  This money will go toward maintenance grants and support for orphans.
 -  Up to 50,000 students will face delays of up to a month in receiving their maintenance grants at the start of the college year.
 -  Most people have no idea that these students will not have to pay fees and will receive, for the first time for years, a substantial maintenance grant.
 -  She welcomed the increase in maintenance grant, which was long overdue.
 -  Even with the modest increase announced by the Minister, the level of maintenance grant is still totally inadequate to cover the basic living costs of a student.
 -  Mr Clarke will also announce the restoration of means-tested maintenance grants for poorer students.
 -  When I left university my tuition fees had been paid for me, I'd had a maintenance grant, and I'd borrowed a series of cheap student loans from the Government.
 -  But more seriously the key to the government reforms is that maintenance grants will be restored to those from the poorest backgrounds.
 
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