All 8 Uses of
subsidy
in
The Omnivore's Dilemma
- The family only gets by because of the paycheck George's wife, Peggy, brings home from her job — and because of a subsidy check from the U.S. government.†
Chpt 1.3
- It is these government checks, or subsidies, that keep corn and soybean prices low.
Chpt 1.3 *subsidies = economic aid
- Thanks to those government subsidies.†
Chpt 1.5
- Of course, the American taxpayers have already paid part of the cost by subsidizing corn.†
Chpt 1.5subsidizing = supporting by providing money or other economic aidstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- It doesn't include the billions the government spends to subsidize corn.†
Chpt 1.5subsidize = to support by providing money or other economic aidstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- To grow the plants and animals that made up my meal, no pesticides found their way into any farmworker's bloodstream, no nitrogen runoff seeped into the watershed, no soils were poisoned, no antibiotics were wasted, no government subsidy checks were written.†
Chpt 2.11
- Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water — all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make cheap food seem cheap.†
Chpt 3.16subsidies = economic aid
- Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water — all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make cheap food seem cheap.†
Chpt 3.16subsidized = supported by providing money or other economic aidstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
Definition:
support in the form of money or other economic aid