fund

[fuhnd]

noun

1. a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose.

   a fund for his education;

   a retirement fund.

2. supply; stock.

   a fund of knowledge;

   a fund of jewels.

   Synonyms: hoard, mine, fount, reservoir, store

3. funds, money immediately available; pecuniary resources.

   to be momentarily without funds.

4. an organization created to administer or manage a fund, as of money invested or contributed for some special purpose.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide a fund to pay the interest or principal of (a debt).

2. to convert (general outstanding debts) into a more or less permanent debt, represented by interest-bearing bonds.

3. to allocate or provide funds for (a program, project, etc.).

fund

/ fʌnd /

noun

1. a reserve of money, etc, set aside for a certain purpose

2. a supply or store of something; stock

   it exhausted his fund of wisdom

verb

1. to furnish money to in the form of a fund

2. to place or store up in a fund

3. to convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt bearing fixed interest and represented by bonds

4. to provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest of

5. to accumulate a fund for the discharge of (a recurrent liability)

   to fund a pension plan

6. to invest (money) in government securities See also funds

Other Word Forms

• funder noun
• nonfunded adjective
• overfund verb (used with object)
• prefund verb (used with object)
• underfund verb (used with object)
• underfunded adjective
• underfunding noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fund¹

First recorded in 1670–80; from Latin fundus “bottom, estate”; replacing fond ² in most of its senses

Word History and Origins

Origin of fund¹

C17: from Latin fundus the bottom, piece of land, estate; compare _fond ²

Example Sentences

It has previously only been used to maintain platform solvency and avoid cascading losses when the insurance fund set by exchanges cannot cover the losses, Colkitt wrote in a thread on X on Friday.

Read more on MarketWatch

Lira arrived at The Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden, Kent, on 14 March following a campaign by managing director Cam Whitnall, who raised £500,000 to fund her and four other rescued lions.

Read more on BBC

After shipments to New York drained silver from London at the start of 2025, a flood of money into an exchange-traded fund backed by the metal pulled more from the market.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

If your father and his wife co-owned the home they sold, those funds would be deemed community or marital property and, as such, would be out of the reach of your father’s children.

Read more on MarketWatch

He has said that OpenAI would have to create new financing tools to help fund this massive build-out but hasn’t shared many details on what that would look like.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• capital 
• endowment 
• foundation 
• stock 
• supply 
• treasury 
• trust