fund
Academic Word List, sublist 3.
About 26.03 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A sum or source of money.
the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
- noun An organization managing such money.
- noun A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
- noun A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
- verb To pay or provide money for.
He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.
- verb To place (money) in a fund.
- verb To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.
Similar words
stock store investment company investment firm investment trust monetary fund funder budget financial pay
Often followed by
of for and to is was in the raising
Word family
funded funder funders funding funds
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