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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

... nominated by the emperor for three years, for whom Nero in 56 substituted two ex-praetors, under the same conditions. In addition to the common treasury, supported by the general taxes and charged with the ordinary expenditure, there was a special reserve fund, also in the temple of Saturn, the aerarium sanctum (or sanctius), probably originally consisting of the spoils of war, afterwards maintained chiefly by a 5% tax on the value of all manumitted slaves, this source of revenue being established by a lex Manlia ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... by whom they were communicated to Orange himself, and the Prince instantly ordered a sum of money to be given him. Thus Balthazar obtained from William's charity what Parma's thrift had denied—a fund for carrying out ...

— A Wanderer in Holland • E. V. Lucas

... goes into the fund, my dear, to be given to your favorite charity the first time you are down in time for breakfast. It amounts to several ...

— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... was gone, of course; and all that remained for Mrs. Sutherland was a small annuity, secured by her husband's payments to a certain fund for the use of officers' widows. From this she could spare but a mere trifle for the completion of Hugh's university-education; while the salary he had received at Turriepuffit, almost the whole of ...

— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald

... and, by custom, debarred from inns and places of public entertainment. His equal right to a free public education is constantly threatened and is nowhere equitably recognized. In Georgia, as has been shown by Dr. DuBois, where the law provides for a pro rata distribution of the public school fund between the races, and where the colored school population is 48 per cent. of the total, the amount of the fund devoted to their schools is only 20 per cent. In New Orleans, with an immense colored population, many of whom are persons of means and culture, all colored public ...

— The Negro Problem • Booker T. Washington, et al.

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