foreign aid

noun

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

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With the Republicans enjoying a majority in both the House and Senate, the courts have emerged as a major impediment to Trump administration policy, and have ruled against the government on a range of issues including the presence of transgender personnel in the military and a foreign aid freeze. James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025 The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, known as PRM, is assuming that function from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the main U.S. foreign aid agency that the Trump administration has been dismantling, say the excerpts reviewed by Reuters. Jonathan Landay, USA Today, 23 May 2025 Advertisement Advertisement These Country Reports offer a detailed account of the state of every country’s human rights practices and are meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid allocations and security assistance. Time, 21 May 2025 Democrats criticized Rubio, accusing their former Senate colleague of ceding ground to China with his 83% cut to the foreign aid budget. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 May 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 28 May. 2025.

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