money that is readily available British government securities representing national debt
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fund /fʌnd/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
v. [~ + object]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- a sum of money set aside for a specific purpose:a retirement fund.
- Businessan organization created to manage money contributed or invested.
- supply;
stock:a fund of knowledge. - funds, [plural] money immediately available:Were enough funds allocated to our department this year?
v. [~ + object]
- to allocate or provide funds for (a program, project, etc.):The government funded his research.
fund
(fund),USA pronunciation n.
v.t.
- a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose:a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- supply;
stock:a fund of knowledge; a fund of jewels. - funds, money immediately available;
pecuniary resources:to be momentarily without funds. - Stock Exchange, Businessan organization created to administer or manage a fund, as of money invested or contributed for some special purpose.
v.t.
- Businessto provide a fund to pay the interest or principal of (a debt).
- Businessto convert (general outstanding debts) into a more or less permanent debt, represented by interest-bearing bonds.
- to allocate or provide funds for (a program, project, etc.).
- Latin fundus bottom, estate; replacing fond2 in most of its meanings
- 1670–80
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged store, reservoir, fount, mine, hoard.
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a reserve of money, etc, set aside for a certain purpose a supply or store of something; stock: it exhausted his fund of wisdom
to furnish money to in the form of a fund to place or store up in a fund to convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt bearing fixed interest and represented by bonds to accumulate a fund for the discharge of (a recurrent liability): to fund a pension plan to invest (money) in government securities