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Funding

noun

Financial resources provided to make some project possible. Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, support.

The act of financing. Synonym: financing.

Fund

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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"Funding" Quotes from Famous Books

... financial and technical assistance over a 15-year period until 2001 - as a result of the second step-down under the agreement. Since these revenues accounted for 57% of consolidated government revenues, reduced Compact funding resulted in a severe depression. While Micronesia's economy appears to have bottomed out in 1999, the country's medium-term economic outlook remains fragile due to likely further reductions in external grants made under the US Compact funding. Geographical isolation ...

— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Many of the States were up to their eyes in schemes of inflation, paper money, and repudiation. There was no money in the treasury to pay the ordinary charges of government; there was no revenue and no policy for raising one, or for funding the debt. This picture is darkly drawn, but it is not exaggerated. That high spirit of public honor, which seventy-five years later rose above the ravages of war and the temptings of dishonesty to pay ...

— George Washington, Vol. II • Henry Cabot Lodge

... overview: The economy benefits substantially from financial assistance from the US. The rate of funding has declined as locally generated government revenues have grown. The key tourist industry employs about 50% of the work force and accounts for roughly one-fourth of GDP. Japanese tourists predominate. Annual tourist entries ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... Repudiation stalked abroad, Yankee ideas conquered again in the policy of our distinguished guest, the Secretary of the Treasury. So great a triumph has never been won by any financial officer of the government before, as in the funding of our national debt at four per cent., and the restoration of the national credit, giving an impulse to our prosperity and industry that can neither ...

— Model Speeches for Practise • Grenville Kleiser