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Meaning fund meaning

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fund Noun

— A fund is an amount of money kept for a specific purpose. GM cannot afford to keep paying into the company pension fund. Our fund-raising campaign has a target of $100,000. — An organisation's funds are the money that it has. The school is raising funds to pay for the new library. The sports centre closed because of a lack of funds.

fund Verb

— If you fund something, you give it money for its activities. The project is jointly funded by the Government of Canada and the International Red Cross. The university will no longer fund research into this drug.

fund

— noun a reserve of money set aside for some purpose — noun (= store) a supply of something available for future use he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars — 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 — 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 — noun (= investment company) a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies

Synonyms fund synonyms

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fund English » English

capital finance stock foundation store treasury appropriation supply subsidize reserve money invest bankroll bank asset sponsor savings principal monetary fund investment trust investment firm investment company funds endowment collection bond wherewithal wheels warehouse till sum of money storehouse storage stockroom stockpile stock room stipend station situate site set up seed seat repertory rank ranch put up put provision provident fund

Conjugation fund conjugation

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fund · verb

Examples fund examples

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Simple sentences

The fund was set up to help orphans.
The money was put into a special fund to buy books for the school library.
This was an additional fund for buying books.
A fund was launched to set up a monument in memory of the dead man.
They set up a fund to support the victims.

Movie subtitles

Listen, the burial fund and everything. I've got it right here.
You have a very regular scale of wages, and there's the sick fund for you.
What a scale, and what a fund.
A thousand dollars. I'll give it to the Milk Fund. If you ever have any money to the Milk Fund it would churn out of sheer astonishment.
One dollar each for the milk fund.
The Jews fund the Duke's war against his own people.
And I am glad to be able to tell you that one result is that the sum of one hundred and thirty-one pounds, two and sixpence will be handed over to the War Nurses' Benevolent Fund.
There's something I'd like you to give Henry for his cathedral fund.
Did anything come for the Cathedral Fund?
Sell all this stuff and put the money in the troop fund.
A few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth.
The pension fund drive?
Is there anything we can do. maybe a loan from the fund to tide you over this period?
All moneys and valuables which may come into our possession. shall be lumped together into a common fund. and from this fund shall first be taken the money. to fit, rig, and provision the ship.
If a man conceal any treasure captured. or fail to place it in the general fund, he shall be marooned.
Why, I'm going to keep it in my trousseau fund.
The king Songsten Gampo roamed the plains in order to fund a new capital in Lhasa for the new Lamaistic religion.
He left her a million-dollar trust fund.
A fund was created.
TO GET SOMEONE TO SIGN AWAY THEIR TRUST FUND.
ON A BEACH SOMEWHERE WITH HIS TRUST FUND.
Naturally, that amount is intact as all checks drawn on that have to be countersigned by Mr. Sims, Miss Breathwaite, Mr. Allen, two directors of the fund, Mr. Cochran, and yourself, of course.
Raising all that dough for an anti-vice fund.
And take this four bits and put it in the Shoeshine's Ever Loving Fund for the Restitution of Restitutionality. You got that?
And even after he died, he tied it all up in a trust fund.
Company fund report's due tomorrow.
I can put it in our nudist camp fund.
I used to sell kisses for the Milk Fund.
How much do I owe the Milk Fund so far?
The motion on the floor is that every girl contributes one day's earnings a week toward our pension fund. All those in favour? - Aye!

News and current affairs

If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
Drug companies argue that high prices are necessary to fund research and development.
A solution to both high prices and misdirected research is to replace the current model with a government-supported prize fund.
Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
A well-designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.
Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other major oil companies should step forward and help to fund the necessary cleanup, ushering in a new era of responsibility.
According to Mexican and Chilean officials I have discussed the matter with, spending from a stabilization fund is reportedly treated as if the country is borrowing, thus adding to its deficit.
To resist these powerful pressures, fiscal councils will need to have their work audited periodically by international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund, both to protect their independence and to promote accountability.
The Fund got the message, and now the fix is in.
The recommendation to enlarge the SDR basket has been warmly backed by Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, and a final decision by the Fund's executive board is expected at the end of the month.
Instead, let's fund the basic research that will make green energy too cheap and easy to resist.
BERKELEY - Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure.
NEW YORK - This year's annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund made clear that Europe and the international community remain rudderless when it comes to economic policy.
In return, Ukraine will uphold its end of the deal: in addition to closing Chernobyl, we will introduce Western nuclear safety standards and renew cooperation with the IMF via the Extended Fund Facility program.
Economic (and political) logic requires that the eurozone will soon also need a common bank rescue fund.
SANTA BARBARA - The Chinese government's campaign to have its currency, the renminbi, included in the International Monetary Fund's reserve asset appears to be on the brink of success.
Today, that figure is 200,000, thanks in large measure to generous support from the United States (under its PEPFAR program) and the Global Fund in Geneva.
Small purchases at current panic prices, vulture-fund style, are always possible, but they do not promise substantial debt relief.
This is why British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's proposal to create a fund for climate change is so welcome.
CAMBRIDGE - When the next full-scale global financial crisis hits, let it not be said that the International Monetary Fund never took a stab at forestalling it.
The Fund's proposal has been greeted with predictable disdain and derision by the financial industry.
In the long term, the US will gain nothing - and risk much - by continuing to back oil sheikhdoms that fund Muslim extremist groups and madrasas from the Philippines and India to South Africa and Venezuela.

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