grant-in-aid
- n a grant from a central government to a local government
- n a grant to a person or school for some educational project
- Washington's insistence that the states set up a separate agency to administer each of its grant-in-aid programsof which there are now 233, compared with only 18 in 1934has .
- Of 78 federal grant-in-aid programs that Manion himself believes should be studied, work has started on only three.
- But the legislature has adopted a resolution asking Congress to "refrain from enacting new grant-in-aid programs.