GRANT-IN-AID

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: grants-in-aid

Meaning:

A grant from a central government to a local government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("grant-in-aid" is a kind of...):

grant; subsidisation; subsidization (the act of providing a subsidy)

Meaning:

A grant to a person or school for some educational project

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("grant-in-aid" is a kind of...):

aid; assistance; economic aid; economic assistance; financial aid; financial assistance (gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause)

grant (any monetary aid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grant-in-aid"):

post doc; postdoc; postdoctoral (a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research)