Definitions for fund

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fund fund

Spelling: [fuhnd]

IPA: /fʌnd/

Fund is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in fund (dfnu).

Definitions for fund

noun

1. a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose:
2. supply; stock:
3. funds, money immediately available; pecuniary resources:
4. an organization created to administer or manage a fund, as of money invested or contributed for some special purpose.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide a fund to pay the interest or principal of (a debt).
2. to convert (general outstanding debts) into a more or less permanent debt, represented by interest-bearing bonds.
3. to allocate or provide funds for (a program, project, etc.).

Origin of fund

1670-80; Latin fundus bottom, estate; replacing fond² in most of its meanings

Examples for fund

Happy, healthy, hearty and with a fund of good nature that nothing could daunt.

Not to mention the revenue that will be generated by this, which then can be used to fund education and health care.

Gold continues to fund several armed groups as it is easily smuggled.

He looks upon me as a sort of fund that has to be placed or sunk or something, somewhere.

On the other hand, he might have been suspected of hiding a fund of reckless naughtiness.

In ten minutes the fund had reached over six hundred dollars.

Her attendance will bring in more parishioners and thus more money to fund church programs.

Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.

In fact, as attendees noted to The Daily Beast, legislators go to ALEC to find ways to fund their campaigns.

In connection with his brothers, he made the first subscription to that fund.