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/fˈəndɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Fund v. t. (past & past part. funded; pres. part. funding)

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.

To place in a fund, as money.

To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

adjective

Funding adj.

Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

Investing in the public funds.

Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt.

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Etymology of 'Funding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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