foreign aid

noun

: assistance (such as economic aid) provided by one nation to another

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Those decisions include clearing the way for stripping legal protections from immigrants, keeping nearly $5 billion in foreign aid frozen and ousting transgender members of the military. Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025 African countries must mobilize more domestic resources — particularly via taxation — in order to finance development spending as foreign aid declines, a new report argued. Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025 Democrats are also looking to reverse Medicaid cuts Republicans included in legislation passed this summer and hinder the Administration’s ability to withhold or cancel federal funding for foreign aid or public broadcasting. Solcyré Burga, Time, 2 Oct. 2025 As director of the OMB, Vought has eliminated hundreds of regulations on the environment, health, transportation and food and worker safety, halted the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and sought to cancel billions in foreign aid. Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreign aid

Word History

First Known Use

1548, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of foreign aid was in 1548

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“Foreign aid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign%20aid. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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