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fund
[ fuhnd ]
noun
- a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose:
a fund for his education;
a retirement fund.
- supply; stock:
a fund of knowledge;
a fund of jewels.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- funds, money immediately available; pecuniary resources:
to be momentarily without funds.
- an organization created to administer or manage a fund, as of money invested or contributed for some special purpose.
verb (used with object)
- to provide a fund to pay the interest or principal of (a debt).
- to convert (general outstanding debts) into a more or less permanent debt, represented by interest-bearing bonds.
- to allocate or provide funds for (a program, project, etc.).
fund
/ ʌԻ /
noun
- a reserve of money, etc, set aside for a certain purpose
- a supply or store of something; stock
it exhausted his fund of wisdom
verb
- to furnish money to in the form of a fund
- to place or store up in a fund
- to convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt bearing fixed interest and represented by bonds
- to provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest of
- to accumulate a fund for the discharge of (a recurrent liability)
to fund a pension plan
- to invest (money) in government securities See also funds
Derived Forms
- ˈڳܲԻ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz·ڳܲԻĻ adjective
- v·ڳܲԻ noun
- v·ڳܲԻ verb (used with object)
- ·ڳܲԻ verb (used with object)
- ܲd·ڳܲԻ verb (used with object)
- ܲd·ڳܲԻed adjective
- ܲd·ڳܲԻing noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fund1
Example Sentences
The defendants, whose cases are not related to each other, were able to fraudulently collect thousands of dollars in federal disaster-relief funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to the Justice Department.
The department “will begin by thoroughly examining UC Berkeley’s apparent failure to fully and accurately disclose significant funding received from foreign sources,” U.S.
Speculative traders, including hedge funds and asset managers, have increased their bets against the dollar in April.
The culture secretary has said the BBC's licence fee is "unenforceable" and insisted "no options are off the table" when the government begins a review into the corporation's current funding model later this year.
“The U.S. Department of Education is unapologetically abandoning its mission to ensure equal access to education with its latest threat to wholesale terminate congressionally mandated federal education funding,” Bonta said in a statement.
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