subsidized

adjective

sub·​si·​dized ˈsəb-sə-ˌdīzd 

-zə-

: furnished with a subsidy : paid for with the assistance of a subsidy (such as a grant of public or private money)

subsidized housing

An entitlement to heavily subsidized health care, regardless of financial need, is a luxury …

—Richard Jackson

Apple employees still rhapsodize about the exquisite salmon served at a subsidized price in the employee cafeteria …

—Jeff Goodell

Examples of subsidized in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are nine subsidized units in the complex for people making 60% of the area median income, about $69,480 a year for an individual. —Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025

Mexican state oil company Pemex sent one billion dollars in subsidized oil to Cuba between July 2023 and September 2024, according to an investigation by a Mexican civil society organization focused on exposing corruption. —Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025

For the PoS-2, Beijing reportedly pushed hard to pay rates close to Russia’s subsidized domestic prices. —Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

The housing authority and its partners offered incentives to move into subsidized long-term housing. —Steven Rosenfeld, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1785, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for subsidized

• acclimatized
• actualized
• aerosolized
• alphabetized
• aluminized
• anaesthetized
• anesthetized
• annualized
• antagonized
• apologised
• apologized
• capitalised