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foreign aid (countable and uncountable, plural foreign aids)

  1. A voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.
    Hyponym: development aid
    • 2018 September 6, “America’s foreign-aid budget has proved surprisingly resilient”, in The Economist[1], →ISSN:
      Then the Republican-controlled Congress maintained foreign aid at $35bn, as in 2017, with funding for health and food largely unchanged.

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