foreign aid

noun

: assistance (such as economic aid) provided by one nation to another

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Having a robust foreign aid operation is about soft power and influence. Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025 More than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday. Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 July 2025 Furthermore, opposition members of parliament described the numerous reforms implemented, including monitoring foreign aid, as well as the establishment of anti-corruption agencies. Laura Thornton, Twin Cities, 27 June 2025 But, as world leaders dismantle global health programs and cut back foreign aid, will this extraordinary new technology be able to change the world? Jon Cohen, New Yorker, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreign aid

Word History

First Known Use

1548, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of foreign aid was in 1548

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“Foreign aid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign%20aid. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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