foreign aid

noun

A voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.

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Meanings

nounforeign aid (countable and uncountable, plural foreign aids)

plural foreign aids

  1. countableuncountableeconomicsA voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.

    Then the Republican-controlled Congress maintained foreign aid at $35bn, as in 2017, with funding for health and food largely unchanged.

    2018 September 6, “America’s foreign-aid budget has proved surprisingly resilient”, in The Economist, →ISSN
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foreign aid,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreign%20aid.

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