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单词 funder
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fundern.

Brit. /ˈfʌndə/, U.S. /ˈfəndər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fund v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < fund v. + -er suffix1.
1. Originally U.S. A person or body who provides funds for a project, cause, etc.
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1802 L. Chester Federalism Triumphant iv. 32 They would be stockholders, and on a footing with the old army funders, bankers, eight per cent money lenders.
1854 Warren (Pa.) Mail 5 Aug. This is a model city. Its funders or projectors..made the streets broad and capacious.
1967 Amer. Econ. Rev. 57 1055 Stimulation of private effort in R&D was found to be most likely in three industries, all of which are and have been important private funders of R&D.
1981 R. G. Myers Connecting Worlds 75 The fact that foreign ideas are often transmitted through funders or through overseas universities puts a particular onus on both.
2016 Mercury (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 15 Aug. 2 The ANC, said Ogle, was one of the parties that had consistently refused to disclose its funders.
2. U.S. Also with capital initial. A member of a political faction in Virginia, active during the 1870s and early 1880s, which advocated full repayment of the debt incurred by that state before the Civil War. Opposed to readjuster n. 2. Now historical.
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1872 Rockingham Reg. (Harrisonburg, Virginia) 11 Jan. A majority of Funders had been appointed upon the Committee.
1877 Southern Planter & Farmer Sept. 549 Mr. Massey, and Gen. Mahone..are really furnishing arguments for the Funders.
1879 Daily Constit. (Atlanta, Georgia) 2 Oct. The war between the readjusters and the funders is a bitter one, but, we judge, not a doubtful one.
1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 743 Debt-payers and moderate readjusters quickly fell into line and, as ‘funders’, pressed the McCulloch Bill to its enactment.
1986 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 30 201 The Readjusters and the Funders were the two factions of the conservative Democratic party.
2010 A. F. Morsman Big House after Slavery iv. 135 Funders argued for the sanctity of contracts and repeatedly warned of the harmful effects that readjustment would have on the state's economy at every level.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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