Noun

(wikipedia presentation) (en noun)

The act of presenting, or something presented

* Hooker

Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.

A dramatic performance

An award given to someone on a special occasion

A lecture or speech given in front of an audience

(medicine) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician, e.g., "Thirty-four-year-old male presented in the emergency room with slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation."

(medicine) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth

(fencing) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent

(mathematics) The specification of a group by generators and relators.

The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.

* Blackstone

If the bishop admits the patron's presentation , the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.

Noun

(subsidies)

Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

(dated) Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.