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Funds   /fəndz/   Listen
Funds

noun
1.
Assets in the form of money.  Synonyms: cash in hand, finances, monetary resource, pecuniary resource.


Fund

noun
1.
A reserve of money set aside for some purpose.  Synonym: monetary fund.
2.
A supply of something available for future use.  Synonyms: stock, store.
3.
A financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies.  Synonyms: investment company, investment firm, investment trust.
verb
(past & past part. funded; pres. part. funding)
1.
Convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds.
2.
Place or store up in a fund for accumulation.
3.
Provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest.
4.
Invest money in government securities.
5.
Accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability.
6.
Furnish money for.



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"Funds" Quotes from Famous Books



... of time this night; and Denys had still much to tell them, when the door was opened quietly, and in stole Cornelis and Sybrandt looking hang-dog. They had this night been drinking the very last drop of their mysterious funds. ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... supporting, the military system which invariably brings these horrors every few years upon the world. They will read of social aspiration spreading through our civilisation, and statesmen regretting that want of funds alone prevents them from remedying our social ills; and they will read how Europe in one year wasted in butchery the resources that might have renovated its disfigured civilisation, and the next year complacently shouldered its military burden, its annual ...
— The War and the Churches • Joseph McCabe
... all other things to the soul of man; and he must therefore, and ought to desire its extension, and to use for its extension all proper and legitimate means; and that, if such Mahometan be a prince, he ought to count among those means the application of whatever influence or funds he may lawfully have at his disposal ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... sole right of presentation to the incumbency of Haworth is vested in the Vicar of Bradford. He only can present. The funds, however, from which the clergyman's stipend mainly proceeds, are vested in the hands of trustees, who have the power to withhold them, if a nominee is sent of whom they disapprove. On the decease of Mr. Charnock, the Vicar first tendered the preferment to Mr. Bronte, ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell
... laid upon the people of Egypt to supply the Ptolemies with funds were, in fact, so heavy, that only the bare means of subsistence were left to the mass of the agricultural population. In admiring the greatness and glory of the city, therefore, we must remember that there was a gloomy counterpart to its splendor in the very extended ...
— Cleopatra • Jacob Abbott


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