Definition of "subsidize" []

• To assist or support with a subsidy. (verb-transitive)
• To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "With universal service, we city-dwellers once again subsidize the cost for those proudly libertarian anti-government types out in the sticks."
• "The only thing we need to subsidize is a massive Manhattan style project to come up with better ways that won't take decades to implement."
• "According to a 2008 study by Amtrak’s inspector general, honest accounting shows that Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, the U.K. and Spain subsidize their trains heavily -- up to $37 for every mile a train travels in Germany."