To subsidize means to pay a portion of a bill or to aid infinancing of money. The government subsidizes money for low incomehousing and student aid for example.
A subsidized cafeteria is one that is built for employees of abusiness. This means that the price of the food is often much lowerthan if the employees were to leave work and e…at at a restaurant.This is because a portion of the food is paid for by the company.This is similar to how a school cafeteria works, withless-fortunate children receiving free and reduced cost lunchesthrough a subsidy that is paid for by the state or county. (MORE)
Giving money to the poor is sometimes labeled "subsidizing idleness," but for some reason that disparagement is never directed at the subsidized idleness of the rich.
Farming for your own survival- i.e not mass farming to sell on for cash, but producing enough vegetables etc for you yourself to survive. Also, it is sustenance farming, from… the word "sustain." Actually the usual term is "subsistence farming" (MORE)
In the US, subsidized stafford student loans refer to loans that do not accrue interest while a student is in deferment. One example of a deferment period is when the student …is enrolled in school. (MORE)
A smartphone is considered subsidized when a consumer gets a discount on the phone in exchange for signing a service contract for a set length of time. The service provider …takes on the additional cost of the device. The reason they do this is to get a customer that will pay enough in monthly bill payments for service over the length of the contract to recoup the initial cost of providing that customer with an expensive phone. This is why post-paid cell phone providers only allow this level of pricing every other year. If they subsidize phones more often, then they often are not making a profit on that customer. (MORE)
Subsidence (sink holes & other manifestations of land-form depression) may occur from any of several conditions. Examples of some of these are: Natural Causes: Rapid, or… prolonged, depression of groundwater level; Faulting (earth quakes); Isostatic (weight of mountains, oceans, lakes, and glaciers); Dissolution of limestone substrate (cave formation); Human Causes: Extraction of archaic water; Extraction of oil; Extraction of natural gas; Shaft mining, especially irresponsible operations; Extraction of geothermal energy; (MORE)