subvention

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It focuses on the subvention - the shortfall between what is raised in taxes in Northern Ireland and the amount spent on public services.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024

They look at the subvention for 2019 as the more recent data, for 2020 and 2021, is distorted by pandemic-related spending in Northern Ireland.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024

It looks at how the subvention would be affected under different scenarios.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024

The terms of the subvention were: "Assistance to be given by the Government to the coal mining industry will take the form of a subvention in aid of wages," to be paid by the Treasury.

From Time Magazine Archive

He talks agriculture, viticulture, subvention of the Ottoman Empire, both by direct tribute and indirect enrichment; stocks and shares, railroads, internal and to India; natural development under expansion—all the jargon of our iron age.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel