Fund
[fʌnd]
Definition
(noun.) a reserve of money set aside for some purpose.
(verb.) furnish money for; 'The government funds basic research in many areas'.
(verb.) accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; 'fund a medical care plan'.
(verb.) invest money in government securities.
(verb.) provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest.
(verb.) place or store up in a fund for accumulation.
(verb.) convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds.
Typist: Susan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
(n.) A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
(n.) The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.
(n.) An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.
(n.) A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.
(v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.
(v. t.) To place in a fund, as money.
(v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Stock, capital.[2]. Store, supply.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stock, capital, investment
ANT:Expenditure, outlay, disbursement
Editor: Rhoda
Definition
n. a sum of money on which some enterprise is founded or expense supported: a supply or source of money: a store laid up: supply: (pl.) permanent debts due by a government and paying interest.—v.t. to form a debt into a stock charged with interest: to place money in a fund.—adj. Fund′able capable of being converted into a fund or into bonds.—p.adj. Fund′ed invested in public funds: existing in the form of bonds.—n. Fund′hold′er one who has money in the public funds.—adj. Fund′less destitute of supplies or money.
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Examples
- She should try to get additional subscriptions, and to form a fund; but first she must consult the clergy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Hawley has been having him to dinner lately: there's a fund of talent in Bowyer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The perpetual allotment and destination of this fund, indeed, is not always guarded by any positive law, by any trust-right or deed of mortmain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then our regimental fund had run down and some of the musicians in the band had been without their extra pay for a number of months. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In this you are right; but as to the restored tranquillity of the neighbourhood, as to the permanent good effect of your charitable fund, I doubt. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There are funds in hand at present. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In 1855 the work was discontinued at the height of 152 feet, from lack of funds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It will have been gathered that the funds for this great experiment were furnished largely by Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or perhaps destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mostly these men have worked against great discouragement, with insufficient funds and small help or support from the mass of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was no market for his wares, and after months of actual destitution he pawned the model of his sewing-machine and even his patent papers in order to secure funds to pay his passage home. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Lord Ravensworth, the principal partner, formed a favorable opinion of Stephenson’s plans, and agreed to supply him with the funds necessary to build a locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In 1764, therefore, the public debt of Great Britain, funded and unfunded together, amounted, according to this author, to ?139,561,807:2:4. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Betsey funded her property for some time, and then, by the advice of her man of business, laid it out on landed security. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On the 5th of January 1763, at the conclusion of the peace, the funded debt amounted debt to ?122,603,336:8:2?. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In 1755, before the breaking out of the late war, the funded debt of Great Britain amounted to ?72,289,675. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- On the 31st of December 1697, the public debts of Great Britain, funded and unfunded, amounted to ?21,515,742:13:8?. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- On the 5th of January 1775, the funded debt of Great Britain amounted to ?124,996,086, 1:6?d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When money was raised in the one way, it was said to be raised by anticipation; when in the other, by perpetual funding, or, more shortly, by funding. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is only during the continuance of war, however, that the system of funding has this advantage over the other system. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The practice of funding has gradually enfeebled every state which has adopted it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The ability of private people to accumulate, though less during the war, would have been greater during the peace, than under the system of funding. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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