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n. - Someone who assists or supports by giving a grant.

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  • Brandishing China's growing bilateral trade surplus as proof, congressmen from both parties have denounced the country as a currency manipulator, an illegal...
  • The study is timely as negotiations heat up in the European Union -- the biggest farm subsidiser -- for further reforms of its Common Agricultural Policy.
  • "When the government made its debut in education in 1833 mainly in the role of a subsidiser it was as if it jumped into the saddle of a horse that was already galloping."
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