financial aid

1. 1.

   gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause

   “economic assistance to depressed areas”

   Synonymsaideconomic aidassistancefinancial assistanceeconomic assistance

   Broadergift

   Narrowersocial welfarephilanthropyscholarshipfellowshipforeign aidgrantgrant-in-aidtraineeship

Questions about financial aid

What does financial aid mean?

financial aid means "gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause".

What is another word for financial aid?

Close synonyms include aid, economic aid, assistance, financial assistance, economic assistance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is financial aid a common word?

financial aid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.