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ˈgrant-aided, a.
[Cf. grant-in-aid.]
Of a school or other institution: assisted by an allowance from government or official funds. Hence, by back-formation, grant-aid v. trans., to afford financial support of this kind to (a school, etc.). Also grant-aid n., short for grant-in-aid; grant-aiding a.
1927Carr-Saunders & Jones Soc. Struct. Eng. & Wales 120 Grant-aided secondary schools. 1930Times Educ. Suppl. 18 Oct. 436/4 One-quarter of the grant-aided schools were now co-educational. 1933Planning I. xii. 8 In road transport the adoption after the war of a national system of classified numbering and a policy of rapid grant-aided development opened the way to a national policy for road transport. 1943Our Towns. A Close-up iii. 96 The Board [of Education] should..ensure, by special grant-aid if necessary, the observance of a minimum standard of hygiene. 1944H. C. Dent Educ. Act 1944 71 A point of interest is that for the first time the Minister is empowered to grant-aid educational research. Ibid. 72 Special agreement schools will, under Clause 102, be grant-aided in accordance with the special agreement in respect of each school. 195920th Cent. Nov. 345 Independent Television..is no less concerned with programmes on current affairs than the grant-aided corporation. 1962Economist 13 Oct. 148/2 The function..will be largely that of a grant-aiding body. |