Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Subsidize
Sub′si·dize (sŭb′sĭ·dīz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subsidized; p. pr. & vb. n. Subsidizing.] [From Subsidy.] To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line.
He employed the remittances from Spain to subsidize a large body of German mercenaries. Prescott.