German

Noun

Subvention f ‎(genitive Subvention, plural Subventionen)

1. subsidy

English

Noun

subvention ‎(plural subventions)

1. A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
2. The act of coming under.
   • Stackhouse

     The subvention of a cloud.

3. The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.

Translations

Verb

subvention ‎(third-person singular simple present subventions, present participle subventioning, simple past and past participle subventioned)

1. To subsidise.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 136:

     His task was, it is true, made easier by the need of the English to remove troops to put down the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising, which the French had subventioned.

Finnish

Noun

subvention

1. Genitive singular form of subventio.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sybvɑ̃sjɔ̃/

Noun

subvention f ‎(plural subventions)

1. subsidy
2. grant