foy

noun

Definition of foynext
chiefly Scottish
as in contribution

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  1. contribution
  2. grant
  3. care package
  4. alms
  5. tithe
  6. subsidy
  7. offering
  8. dole
Noun
  • The contribution from him was small but encouraging: a baby hook with the left hand, a good help read to block a shot before the third-quarter buzzer, a pair of boards.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Matching that money with contributions of their own, the state and city negotiated a transfer of seven miles of 82nd Avenue from the Oregon DOT to Portland.
    David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of contribution
Noun
  • The nonprofits People Assisting the Homeless, or PATH, and Healthcare in Action were supported by $17 million from California’s Encampment Resolution Funding Program, a grant that’s being split by multiple agencies around the region.
    Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • This was made with a grant called Talent to Watch, which is a Telefilms grant for first features.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of grant
Noun
  • The good news is that in recent years, mental health researchers around the world have begun to design care packages that tackle these two challenges in delivering treatment in developing countries: making remedies culturally appropriate and operating in low-resource environments.
    Catherine Thomas, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2015
  • There’s nothing like a handwritten message to make a care package memorable.
    Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of care package
Noun
  • Those celebrating also pay zakat al-fitr, an alms-tax that goes towards those in need.
    Juliana LaBianca, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In 2007, amid rising fuel prices and yet another economic crisis, Buddhist monks led mass protests in Yangon and other cities, overturning their alms bowls to signal disenchantment with the military junta.
    Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
Definition of alms
Noun
  • In 2023, for example, VOUS brought in over $15 million in income from general tithes and other ministry gifts, and donated more than $1.3 million according to financial records found on VOUS’ website.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
  • That Harvard lost this one ought to serve as a warning to those who have convinced themselves that the purpose of the American citizenry is to furnish a few members of a distant caste with ever-increasing tithes and never to ask how they are being spent.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
Definition of tithe
Noun
  • Households are looking for affordable options now that their ACP subsidies are no longer available.
    Advertorial, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
  • China in August had filed a complaint under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism against EU’s subsidy duties on EVs.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of subsidy
Noun
  • Luxury items are also part of the store’s offerings.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Religious soldiers may have left the golden object as an offering to Jupiter Dolichenus, perhaps to increase their luck on the battlefield.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of offering
Noun
  • Residents also grew frustrated, as migrants reluctantly snared in endless court proceedings appeared to be gaming the system and living off the taxpayers’ dole.
    Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The result has been sporadic doles of grudging emergency funding to meet periodic crises, leaving little certainty about the future.
    Simon J. Potter, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2023
Definition of dole
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“Foy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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