Definition of "foreign aid" []

• Aid, such as economic or military assistance, offered by one nation to another. (noun)

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• "Roadbuilding efforts in the mountainous, isolated Northeast, funded by foreign aid which is no longer forthcoming were sabotaged by Burmese insurgents working with about 5,000 Nationalist Chinese irregulars."
• "In sworn testimony behind the closed doors of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in May, my father advised against sending any American foreign aid to the newly repressive postrevolt Hungary."
• "An economy steeped in corruption and driven by the heroin/opium trade and foreign aid enriched an elite who partied into the night, taking advantage of new freedoms that under the Taliban might have earned them a reprimand from the religious police (listening to music); landed them in prison (drinking alcohol); or had them stoned to death (sex outside marriage)."