sinking fund

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noun

a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.

Origin of sinking fund

First recorded in 1715–25

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Related Words for sinking fund

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Historical Examples of sinking fund

Others have reduced the Army, and added to the Sinking-Fund.
The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money
John Thomson
In 1899 the provisions for the sinking-fund were also included.
The Government of England (Vol. I)
A. Lawrence Lowell
The remaining $150,000, has been placed in the sinking-fund.
Solaris Farm
Milan C. Edson
It is in allusion to this that we have spoken of the sinking-fund as a great hoax.
Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, No. 421, New Series, Jan. 24, 1852
Various
And the certificates for which the check had been purloined were not in the sinking-fund as they should have been.
The Financier
Theodore Dreiser

British Dictionary definitions for sinking fund

sinking fund

noun

a fund accumulated out of a business enterprise's earnings or a government's revenue and invested to repay a long-term debt or meet a depreciation charge

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sinking fund in Culture

sinking fund

A fund into which companies or governments place money to redeem their bonds and other forms of indebtedness.