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Funds   /fəndz/   Listen
Funds

noun
1.
Assets in the form of money.  Synonyms: cash in hand, finances, monetary resource, pecuniary resource.


Fund

noun
1.
A reserve of money set aside for some purpose.  Synonym: monetary fund.
2.
A supply of something available for future use.  Synonyms: stock, store.
3.
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)
1.
Convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds.
2.
Place or store up in a fund for accumulation.
3.
Provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest.
4.
Invest money in government securities.
5.
Accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability.
6.
Furnish money for.



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"Funds" Quotes from Famous Books



... Attorney-General, he challenged "the validity of this appropriation under that section of the Constitution." The Protectory, he says, "appears to be local in its purposes and operations." And being a sectarian charity, he adds, "Public funds should not be contributed to its support. A violation of this principle in this case would tend to subject the state treasury to demands in behalf of all sorts of sectarian institutions, which a due care for the money of the State, and a just ...
— Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 4, January, 1885 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various
... it justly. Once satisfied upon that point, he would know better what further steps to take. His whole mind had unconsciously centred upon a distrust of the man. He believed him to be a sneaking scoundrel, at present engaged in seeking some means for gaining possession of the trust funds left in his care. And yet, West had to confess to himself that this belief was largely founded upon prejudice—confidence in Natalie, and a personal dislike of the man himself. He possessed no proof of the fellow's perfidy, nor had he even determined in ...
— The Case and The Girl • Randall Parrish
... painfully in his mind, he resolved at last to accept the offer of the marquis. The payment after all was to be made to his own mother. The funds of the living were not to be alienated—were not, in truth, to be appropriated otherwise than they would have been had no such conditions as these been insisted on. And how would he be able to endure his mother's ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... then, I have seen the king of Spain, who wished me to do a service, but was unable. He gave me recommendations, however, to Flanders, both for myself and for Laicques too; and conferred a pension on me out of the funds belonging to ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... had allowed me time for getting ample funds placed at our disposal through the agency of my father's solicitors, Messrs. Dettermain and Newson, whom I already knew from certain transactions with them on his behalf. They were profoundly courteous ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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