Dictionary entry

Subsidize

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sub″si‐dize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Subsidized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Subsidizing (?).] [From Subsidy.] To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line.

He employed the remittances from Spain to subsidize a large body of German mercenaries. Prescott.