fund
Americannoun
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funds
plural
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a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose.
a fund for his education;
a retirement fund.
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supply; stock.
a fund of knowledge;
a fund of jewels.
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funds, money immediately available; pecuniary resources.
to be momentarily without funds.
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an organization created to administer or manage a fund, as of money invested or contributed for some special purpose.
verb (used with object)
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funds,
present (3rd person singular)
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funded,
past participle, past
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funding
present participle
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to provide a fund to pay the interest or principal of (a debt).
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to convert (general outstanding debts) into a more or less permanent debt, represented by interest-bearing bonds.
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to allocate or provide funds for (a program, project, etc.).
noun
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a reserve of money, etc, set aside for a certain purpose
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a supply or store of something; stock
it exhausted his fund of wisdom
verb
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to furnish money to in the form of a fund
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to place or store up in a fund
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to convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt bearing fixed interest and represented by bonds
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to provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest of
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to accumulate a fund for the discharge of (a recurrent liability)
to fund a pension plan
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to invest (money) in government securities See also funds
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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fundernoun
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overfundnoun
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underfundingnoun
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overfundverb (used with object)
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prefundverb (used with object)
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underfundverb (used with object)
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nonfundedadjective
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underfundedadjective
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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fundsimple
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fundssimple
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have fundedperfect
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has fundedperfect
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am fundingprogressive
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are fundingprogressive
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is fundingprogressive
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have been fundingperfect progressive
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has been fundingperfect progressive
Past
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fundedsimple
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had fundedperfect
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was fundingprogressive
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were fundingprogressive
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had been fundingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of fund
First recorded in 1670–80; from Latin fundus “bottom, estate”; replacing fond 2 in most of its senses
Explanation
A fund is a supply of money to be used for a specific purpose. You can start a fund for almost anything, such as your child’s education, a new car, or the establishment of the world’s largest origami collection. Fund can be used as a verb meaning “provide funds for something.” If you’re unable to save up the money to start your origami collection, you might ask a friend to fund it. (We predict she’ll say no.) An organization that raises money for a particular, often charitable, purpose can also be called a fund. We doubt an origami collection warrants its own fund, but there's no harm in trying.
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He expects the loss to be manageable for Binance given the exchange’s $1.2 billion insurance fund and the swift move by Tether and Circle to freeze stolen assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Under an arrangement set up in the last year, private companies and nonprofits can fund work at JPL directly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
That should help you build an emergency fund — something you say you lack — along with a travel budget for those trips away to make you miss your dream home.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Alphabet recently raised $85 billion through equity offerings to fund its AI data center expansion.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Although Bobby was in want financially, this prize fund was not acceptable to him.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
"We are working around the clock and will share a full post-mortem once the investigation is complete. Please rely only on official Binance channels for updates," the firm said, adding that users' funds are safe.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Binance said the amount of funds frozen may continue to increase as its teams work closely with law enforcement and other partners to trace and seize additional assets.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Polymarket paused trading on its website Thursday after some users of the prediction-market’s platform said their accounts had been drained of funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Even if an employee did take an interest and pick their own investments, they’d have only about 15-30 choices of mutual funds, most of which would align to broad-market indexes or sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
A trade magazine published the top seventy-five hedge funds of 2007, and Scion was nowhere on it—even though its returns put it at or near the very top.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
If you are living in a home in council tax bands A to D in England, you will receive a one-off £100 "Household Energy Payment" from January, funded by extra tax on banks.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
I am still fighting in court to recover our daughters’ college savings accounts, which I funded with money I gave him to manage.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Raman’s office didn’t comment on that assertion, but Stahl said that the Bureau of Street Services isn’t funded to repair damaged sidewalks, and the responsibility falls to the adjacent property owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Rockefeller's money built universities and funded medical research and public health campaigns around the world.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
So every one of these incredibly optimistic scenarios from every one of these new telecom companies got funded.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
In the span of around two hours Wednesday, Jauregui received a half dozen different funding offers via text.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
At Carney's announcement on Thursday, Gomez said the federal investment is part of a funding round targeting CAN$7 billion, which would take the company to a CAN$35.7 billion valuation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Yet in the wake of the October pause, the focus will quickly turn to the Treasury Department’s looming release of its funding plans for the next quarter, on Nov. 4.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Under Choudri, the project lost billions of dollars in federal funding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The plan was to use that funding to start a new nonprofit.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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