foreign aid

1. 1.

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

   Broaderaid

   NarrowerMarshall Plan

   military

Questions about foreign aid

What does foreign aid mean?

foreign aid means "aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another".

Is foreign aid a common word?

foreign 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.