Grant-in-aid Definition

grăntĭn-ād
grants-in-aid
noun
A grant of funds, as by the federal government to a state or by a foundation to a writer, scientist, artist, etc., to support a specific program or project.
Webster's New World
A giving of funds to an institution or a person in order to subsidize a project or program.
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Grant-in-aid Sentence Examples

  • This grant is in lieu of the grants formerly made out of the exchequer grant in aid of local rates, and amounted in1906-1907to £619,489.

  • There is no public debt, the annual deficiency being made good by a grant-in-aid from the imperial exchequer.

  • The number of pupils in private schools under government inspection was in 1898, the first year of the grant-in-aid system, 7536; in 1900, 12,315; in 1905, 145,691.

  • The Design Council is funded by grant-in-aid from the Department of Trade & Industry.

  • The Council employs approximately 60 members of staff and is responsible for administering Government grant-in-aid of around £ 3.5 million.

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