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BLOCK GRANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A grant of federal money to state and local governments to support social welfare programs
Example:
block grants reduce federal responsibility for social welfare
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("block grant" is a kind of...):
grant; subsidisation; subsidization (the act of providing a subsidy)
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