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• plural of fund.
• present tense form of fund (3rd person singular).

funds

British  

/ fʌndz /

plural noun

1. money that is readily available

2. British government securities representing national debt

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Explanation

The money you have available at a given time are your funds. If you only get paid once a month, you have to budget carefully so you don't run out of funds between paychecks. The word funds comes from the Latin word fundus, which means "bottom," "base," or "a piece of property." It's not clear how the noun funds got from property to available cash, but perhaps the connection came because a person could base his financial security on being able to sell his land if he needed ready money. If your kids are low on funds, they will probably hit you up for an advance on their allowances. The request will probably begin something like, "How much do you love me?" Too bad that doesn't work at your bank!

Example Sentences

Those often have exceeded the funds’ quarterly limits on share buybacks, meaning investors can’t get all their money out when they want to.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

This can make the funds’ returns more volatile, but so long as longer-term bond yields are higher than short-term interest rates, which they usually are, it should increase returns.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 26, 2026

After putting a sample of hundreds of U.S.-stock mutual funds to this test, Cornell concluded that 91.8% of the differences in those funds’ annual returns was “attributable to random chance.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026

Superficially, reports of the trust funds’ declining fortunes are alarming.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The alternative-asset industry has come under pressure in 2026 as investors worry about their funds’ exposure to highly-leveraged software companies vulnerable to disruption by artificial intelligence.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026