grant-in-aid has definitions from the field of government
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[ noun ] (government) a grant from a central government to a local government

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(Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)

From its inception in 1920 with the passage of Public_Law 236 , 66_th_Congress , the purpose of the vocational rehabilitation_program has been to assist the States , by means of grants-in-aid , to return disabled men and women to productive , gainful employment .

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[ noun ] a grant to a person or school for some educational project

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