Dictionary Entry
fund
fund is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6transitive verb
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.
- 7transitive verb
To place in a fund, as money.
- 8transitive verb
To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
- 9noun
a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies
- 10noun
a reserve of money set aside for some purpose
- 11noun
a supply of something available for future use
"he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
- 12verb
furnish money for
"The government funds basic research in many areas"
- 13verb
accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability
"fund a medical care plan"
- 14verb
invest money in government securities
- 15verb
provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest
- 16verb
place or store up in a fund for accumulation
- 17verb
convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds
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