fund
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.
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.
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.).
Origin of fund
1Other words for fund
Other words from fund
- non·fund·ed, adjective
- o·ver·fund, noun
- o·ver·fund, verb (used with object)
- pre·fund, verb (used with object)
- un·der·fund, verb (used with object)
- un·der·fund·ed, adjective
- un·der·fund·ing, noun
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How to use fund in a sentence
The developing program will be funded through forfeiture funds and will contract social workers.
The policing reforms in the Breonna Taylor settlement, explained | Fabiola Cineas | September 17, 2020 | VoxThe website says the fund will provide financial assistance and grants to affected populations.
Lack of transparency over Modi’s Covid-19 relief fund hurts Indian democracy | Vidya Venkat | September 14, 2020 | QuartzWhen I sat down with Bolden for an interview in 2014 at Johnson Space Center, I asked why NASA was investing so much in the SLS rocket when SpaceX was using its own funds to develop the lower-cost Falcon Heavy rocket.
Charlie Bolden says the quiet part out loud: SLS rocket will go away | Eric Berger | September 11, 2020 | Ars TechnicaThey are programmable and adjustable to control how, when, and where funds are used.
Shortly after the program began, there was also general outcry over large, publicly-traded companies receiving loans while smaller businesses struggled to access the funds.
JPMorgan flags potentially ‘illegal’ actions of employees and PPP loan recipients | Anne Sraders | September 8, 2020 | Fortune
He created his own crowd-funding platform for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which has yet to be launched.
If we want that to change, then all of us have to encourage our legislators to make funding community policing a priority.
Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.
The ‘No Child’ Rewrite Threatens Your Kids’ Future | Jonah Edelman | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe user fee on duck stamps goes exclusively to funding federal acquisition of wetlands as wildlife habitat.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive | Ben Jacobs | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCongress keeps funding it ad hoc—but when the GOP takes over the Senate next year, who knows.
To GOP Congress, as Usual, It’s Welfare on the Chopping Block | Monica Potts | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe funding was kicked off by some tech millionaires who couldn't believe that a bunch of hacker kids had kicked the DHS's ass.
Little Brother | Cory DoctorowMr. Cobbett has made this little pamphlet a text book, for most of his elaborate treatises, on our finances, and funding systems.
Life of Thomas Paine | Richard CarlileHe severely criticised Hamilton's methods of funding, and outlined those which he himself later applied.
Albert Gallatin | John Austin StevensTo account for this deficiency on the part of England, some reference should be had to the English system of funding.
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume II | Thomas PaineNext may be mentioned the advantage which the North gained in the funding of the Federal debt incurred at the Revolutionary war.
A Defence of Virginia | Robert L. Dabney
British Dictionary definitions for fund
/ (fʌnd) /
a reserve of money, etc, set aside for a certain purpose
a supply or store of something; stock: it exhausted his fund of wisdom
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
Origin of fund
1Derived forms of fund
- funder, noun
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