grants-in-aid

plural of grant-in-aid

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for grants-in-aid
Noun
  • One entrepreneur pitched the idea of a small-business liaison or task force that could answer questions and alert business owners to resources, grants and other opportunities.
    Mars King, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Seventh Circuit’s opinion underscored that the judiciary retains a role in reviewing statutory conditions for troop deployment, while the New York decision reaffirmed congressional mandates that security grants be based on risk assessment rather than political considerations.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Senate Democrats are expected to keep blocking that bill, not budging on their position that health care subsidies that expire at the end of the year need to be extended.
    NPR, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Supporters have consistently cast the plan as vital to keep the teams, while opponents frame stadium subsidies as corporate welfare for rich team owners.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Because Social Security benefit programs are considered mandatory spending by law, they are not impacted by the lapse in funding appropriations.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • On June 30, the Department of Education told state agencies that congressional appropriations for after-school activities and English-as-a-second-language instruction would not arrive the next day, as planned.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Grants-in-aid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grants-in-aid. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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