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Discover LudwigThe word 'subsidised' is correct and usable in written English
You would use it to describe an item or activity that is being supported or funded in part or in whole by a government or other organisation. For example: "The new school was built with a subsidised loan from the city council."
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Related: Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF The latest evidence about how expensive fossil fuels really are has been provided this week by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an organisation that monitors the progress of the world's economy.
Iran permits more sex-change operations than any other country, except Thailand, and has long subsidised such surgeries.
He said fossil fuel subsidies were endemic in the US: "Every single well, pipeline, refinery, coal and gas plant in the country is heavily subsidised.
In October 2013, the Economist suggested that, rather than third-tier cities such as Hull, Huddersfield and Wolverhampton continuing to be subsidised, they should be allowed to decline.
Launching Australia's first strategy for tackling antibiotic resistance on Tuesday, the health minister, Sussan Ley, said more than 29m prescriptions for antibiotics were subsidised by the government in 2013, with the drugs reaching 45% of the population.
Speaking at a Guardian Live event at Chelsea Old Town Hall hosted by columnist Deborah Orr, the controversial fashion designer said: "Clothes should cost a lot more than they do – they are so subsidised.
It is increasingly clear that oil, coal and gas have huge hidden costs that are omitted from prices, and they are therefore heavily subsidised.
OECD and IEA studies also found that last year, countries who subsidised fossil fuel increased their consumption by 1barrels of oil and in countries without subsidies, consumption fell by 1.5m barrels.
And in any case, the point of the Tory poster wasn't so much Scottish stinginess as Scotland's thirst for public spending – subsidised, in this view, by the English taxpayer.
The success of the production, as well as that of Wolf Hall, is testament to the importance of the UK's subsidised theatre sector.
The debate between Ken Ferguson, the editor of Scottish Socialist Voice, and Peter Cranie, prospective Green European parliamentary candidate for the North West, over whether transport should be free for all or whether train and coach transport should be subsidised because of its carbon footprint.
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