(alsogrant-in-aid)GOVERNMENT,FINANCEanamountofmoneygiven by thegovernmentto agovernmentdepartmentorsocialorganizationthat is not abusiness:Grant inaidispaidwhere theScottishGovernment hasdecidedthat therecipientbodyshouldoperateat arm'slengthfromgovernment.Thisyeargrant-in-aidfundingisavailabletovoluntarysectorbodies.(Definition ofgrant in aidfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofgrant in aid
grant in aidThe college has 100 sanctioned posts undergrantinaidscheme out of which 83 are filled.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The council is, in turn, accountable to me for the efficient administration of itsgrantinaid.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0This year, we gave it ￡470,000 ofgrantinaidand next year it will have a total of ￡14·5 million.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0It will receivegrantinaid, including capital, of about ￡5·75 million next year.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0This is additional to the ￡93 milliongrantinaidalready agreed.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I am considering the proposal carefully but am not able at present to give a reply aboutgrantinaid.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/grant-in-aid##
