corporate welfare

1. financial assistance, as tax breaks or subsidies, given by the government to profit-making companies, especially large corporations.

Word History and Origins

Origin of corporate welfare¹

1990–95, Americanism

Example Sentences

Some critics derided the plan as corporate welfare.

From Seattle Times

“It was just a concern of running it before we gave real tax relief to our constituents — kind of that juxtaposed look of what appears to be corporate welfare before you’re getting tax relief to the people,” Masterson said after deciding against having a Senate vote.

From Seattle Times

Republicans have derisively called those incentives “corporate welfare.”

From New York Times

His spending was really just a corporate welfare extravaganza.

From Slate

Garcia “developed a new district focused on transparency and the elimination of corporate welfare,” Griffin said.

From Seattle Times