fundnoun
uk/fʌnd/us/fʌnd/C1 [ C ] an amount of money saved, collected, or provided for a particular purpose:
a pension/trust fund
The hospital has set up a special fund to buy new equipment.
Contributions are being sought for the disaster fund.
funds C1 [ plural ]
money needed or available to spend on something:
Following the repairs to the roof, church funds are now seriously depleted.
The president has agreed to allocate further funds to develop the new submarine.
informal "Can I borrow £50?" "I'm a little short of/low on funds (= I have little money) at the moment".
a fund of sth
a lot of something:
She has a fund of knowledge on the subject.
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- The fund provides money to clean up chemically polluted industrial sites.
- Her family have contributed £50, 000 to the fund.
- To ensure security the investment fund has holdings in many companies.
- They've set up a fund for victims of the earthquake.
- This national fund pays for welfare benefits such as unemployment and sickness pay.
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Trusts & funds
- annuity
- blind trust
- covenant
- escrow
- fiduciary
- funding
- inheritance
- kitty
- mutual fund
- pension fund
- pension plan
- slush fund
- super
- superannuation
- support
- the Consolidated Fund
- trust
- trustee
- trusteeship
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Amounts of money
Interest & capital
Masses and large amounts of things
fundverb [ T ]
uk/fʌnd/us/fʌnd/C1 to provide the money to pay for an event, activity, or organization:
The company has agreed to fund my trip to Australia.
The new college is being privately funded (= money for it is not being provided from taxes).
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- We'll need accurate costings before we can agree to fund the scheme.
- Chissano said Western governments should stump up the cash to fund land redistribution.
- The Channel Tunnel was jointly funded by the French and British.
- The project is being held in abeyance until agreement is reached on funding it.
- He funds his extravagant lifestyle by developing property.
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Paying money
- ante
- chargeable
- congestion charge
- demurrage
- disburse
- discharge
- disgorge
- fork
- fork out sth
- overspend
- pay up
- pick up the bill/tab idiom
- put sth down 1
- repayable
- self-financing
- sink
- spring
- square
- tip
- worth
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funder
noun [ C ] uk/ˈfʌn.dər//ˈfʌn.dɚ/
The Ministry of Health is a major funder of medical research.