foreign aid

noun

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

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Ukraine has also received a number of ground robots in foreign aid packages, including the German Gereon RCS vehicles, Estonian THeMIS robot, and the Czech Trail-Blazer. Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 In the three months since thousands of foreign aid workers were fired and aid contracts canceled, the Peruvian government has moved quickly to strip Indigenous people of their land rights and to tighten controls on international organizations that document human rights abuses. Graham Lee Brewer, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025 Aid organizations warned earlier this year that the administration's slashing of foreign aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development threatened to exacerbate the devastating famine in Sudan. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 May 2025 The widowed mother of two says her younger son — 7-year-old Babagana Bukar Mohammed — died as a result of the disruptions to U.S. foreign aid. Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 28 May 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 Jun. 2025.

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