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Fund

noun

A reserve of money set aside for some purpose. Synonym: monetary fund.

A supply of something available for future use. Synonyms: stock, store.

A financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies. Synonyms: investment company, investment firm, investment trust.

verb

(past & past part. funded; pres. part. funding)

Convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds.

Place or store up in a fund for accumulation.

Provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest.

Invest money in government securities.

Accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability.

Furnish money for.

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"Fund" Quotes from Famous Books

... wind went calling and blustering down the valley. The miner piled the fuel high upon the fire and, as the hours passed, told story after story of wild adventure, of desperate escape, of bold crime, and of the quick, merciless justice of the frontier. At last his fund of narrative seemed to come to an end and he was silent ...

— The Windy Hill • Cornelia Meigs

... that came from the eggs and chickens. What she could do with it she did not know. It grew so slowly. But there was always the hope that some day Marcus would find it a full-grown treasure to face the world with. When, seven years ago, the great Pliny had given to Como a fund to educate freeborn orphans, she had thought bitterly that her baby would be better off without her. Sometimes, since then, she had been mad enough to think of trying to see Pliny when he came to the villa which was nearest to her farm. He was there now. Stories of his magnificent ...

— Roads from Rome • Anne C. E. Allinson

... will think any bill which establishes local government a progressive step of glory enough for one year. If Ireland cannot improve the law after it gets a Legislature it needs a few American politicians, more than an extra fund." How does this promise for the peace that is to follow this great measure of "Justice" to Ireland? With the improved methods of the Irish-American politicians, who, on the establishment of an Irish Parliament, would inundate the country, finding in its ...

— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

... that you should pay for it yourself," said Gorman. "Charge it up against the Civil List or the Secret Service Fund, or work it in under 'Advances to our Allies.' There must be some way of doing it, and I really think ...

— Lady Bountiful - 1922 • George A. Birmingham

... me when I say that I have a great fund of love, and no one to spend it upon, because there are not any to whom I could give it fully, and I love my pets so dearly, but I dare not and cannot enjoy it fully because—they die, or get injured, and then my misery is intense. I feel as if I could tell you ...

— Hortus Inclusus - Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days - to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston • John Ruskin

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