foreign aid

noun

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

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This impulse includes narrowing the definition of human rights and shrinking or eliminating foreign aid. Time, 3 Sep. 2025 Much of this foreign aid rests on goodwill that the Dalai Lama has personally cultivated in capitals around the world. Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025 And just this week, the administration petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn lower court rulings that preserved foreign aid programs — including those supporting global health and HIV/AIDS relief — which Trump has sought to block. Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 As international journalists have been banned from entering Gaza, foreign aid workers have had to step into the role of providing eyewitness testimonies for Western audiences. Seema Jilani august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 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 9 Sep. 2025.

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