subsidize-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: assist by giving money to an organization or human being.

Commentary: Syntax is: NP1[agent] SUBSIDIZE NP2[human]
NOTE: [human] includes groups and organizations which are made up of human participants.

Examples:
Why Americans subsidized the Israeli settlers, and why we should pay to relocate them.
And so, instead of taxing the press, we subsidized the press.
It bailed out, and then subsidized, the financially faltering Partisan Review.
The corn farmers are very highly subsidized; the lettuce farmers are not.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: subsidize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2

Sense Number 2: pay for a portion of the cost of an object or an activity.

Commentary: Syntax is: NP1[agent] SUBSIDIZE NP2[object/activity]
NOTE: Compare to Sense 1: NP2 is an object/activity rather than a person or a group of people.

Examples:
The seal hunt had never been illegal and the government subsidized the hunt pre 2000.
With child care cost totally subsidized, the employment probability rises.
In 2006, we taxpayers subsidized the health care facility by paying out $2976713.
All Stafford Loans are either subsidized or unsubsidized.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: subsidize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1