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fund
[fuhnd] 
–noun
| 1. | a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund. |
| 2. | supply; stock: a fund of knowledge; a fund of jewels. |
| 3. | funds, money immediately available; pecuniary resources: to be momentarily without funds. |
| 4. | an organization created to administer or manage a fund, as of money invested or contributed for some special purpose. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to provide a fund to pay the interest or principal of (a debt). |
| 6. | to convert (general outstanding debts) into a more or less permanent debt, represented by interest-bearing bonds. |
| 7. | to allocate or provide funds for (a program, project, etc.). |
Synonyms:
2. store, reservoir, fount, mine, hoard.
2. store, reservoir, fount, mine, hoard.
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| fund (fŭnd) n.
[Latin fundus, bottom, piece of land.] |
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Fund
Fund\, n. [OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.]1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. 2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc. 3. pl. The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. 4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object. 5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. An inexhaustible fund of stories. --Macaulay. Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.Fund
Fund\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Funded; p. pr. & vb. n. Funding.]1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes. 2. To place in a fund, as money. 3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
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Language Translation for : fund
Spanish:
fondo,
German:
das Kapital,
Japanese:
基金
fund (n.)
1664, from Fr. fond "a bottom, floor, ground," also "a merchant's basic stock or capital," from L. fundus "bottom, piece of land," from PIE base *bhu(n)d-, cognate with Skt. budhnah, Gk. pythmen "foundation, bottom," O.E. botm "lowest part" (see bottom). The verb is 1776, from the noun. Funds "money at one's disposal" is from 1728. Fund-raiser first attested 1957.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Main Entry: fund
Function: noun
1 : a sum of money or other resources whose principal or interest is set aside for a specific objective
cli·ent security fund
: a fund established by each state to compensate clients for losses suffered due to their attorneys' misappropriation of funds
common trust fund
: an in-house trust fund established by a bank trust department to pool the assets of many small trusts for greater diversification in investing
executor fund
: a fund established in estate planning to provide for the payment of final expenses by an executor
joint wel·fare fund
: a fund that is established by collective bargaining to provide health and welfare benefits to employees and that is jointly administered by representatives of labor and management
paid–in fund
: a reserve cash fund in lieu of a capital stock account set up by mutual insurance companies to cover unforeseen losses
sink·ing fund
: a fund set up and accumulated by regular deposits for paying off the principal on a debt or for other specified purposes (as self-insurance)
strike fund
: a fund accumulated by a union through special assessments or from general funds and used to pay striking workers or for other strike-related activities
Taft–Hart·ley fund
/'taft-'härt-lE-/
Etymology: after the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which established it
: JOINT WELFARE FUND in this entry
trust fund
: property (as money or securities) settled or held in a trust
2 : an organization administering a special fund
growth fund
: a mutual fund that invests in the stock of growth companies
hedge fund
: an investing group usually in the form of a limited partnership that employs speculative techniques in the hope of obtaining large capital gains
index fund
: a mutual fund that invests to reflect the composition of the market as a whole by matching its investments to a stock index
mu·tu·al fund
: an investment company that invests its shareholders' money in a usually diversified group of securities of other companies
vul·ture fund
: an investment company that buys up bankrupt or insolvent companies with the goal of reorganizing them so they can be profitably resold as going concerns
Main Entry: fund
Function: transitive verb
1 a : to make provision of resources for discharging the principal or interest of b : to provide financial resources for
2 : to place in a fund
3 : to convert into a debt that is payable either at a distant date or at no definite date and that bears a fixed interest
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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