defundingn.
/dᵻˈfʌndɪŋ/, /(ˌ)diːˈfʌndɪŋ/, U.S. /diˈfəndɪŋ/ The action or practice of withdrawing funding from an enterprise, institution, etc., either wholly or in part.
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1918 Times 10 Jan. (Libr. ed.) 12/1 There is no useful result to the State in the unfunding (or should it be ‘defunding’?) of holdings of War Loan into War Bonds.
1989 Tharunka (Kensington, New S. Wales) 14 Mar. The cuts to library services are a direct result of the federal government's defunding of public education.
2018 S. Staszak in L. G. Dodd Rights Revol. Revisited x. 270 A sustained, bipartisan coalition supporting legal aid in Congress made complete defunding politically infeasible.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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