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GRANT-IN-AID
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Irregular inflected form: grants-in-aid
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A grant from a central government to a local government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("grant-in-aid" is a kind of...):
grant; subsidisation; subsidization (the act of providing a subsidy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A grant to a person or school for some educational project
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("grant-in-aid" is a kind of...):
aid; assistance; economic aid; economic assistance; financial aid; financial assistance (gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause)
grant (any monetary aid)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grant-in-aid"):
post doc; postdoc; postdoctoral (a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research)
