cross-subsidise

present singular third person cross-subsidises · participle present cross-subsidising · participle past cross-subsidised · past cross-subsidised · alternative cross-subsidize

1. UKTo subsidise a loss-making business or activity from the profits gained from another business or activity.

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   Even better known is the fact that B.E.A. services to sparsely populated areas and islands in the far north and west lose some £500,000 a year, which is cross-subsidised from other B.E.A. services. [...] The total extent of subsidising and cross-subsidising public transport in large areas of Scotland is, he believes, over £17 million a year, or £14 a head of the population in the regions concerned.

   1964 January, “News and Comment: The main Scottish closures tabled”, in Modern Railways, page 4