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

1. noun. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
2. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. 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.
6. transitive 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.
7. transitive verb. To place in a fund, as money.
8. transitive verb. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
9. noun. a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies
10. noun. a reserve of money set aside for some purpose
11. noun. a supply of something available for future use

    "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"

    Synonyms: stock, store

12. verb. furnish money for

    "The government funds basic research in many areas"

13. verb. accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability

    "fund a medical care plan"

14. verb. invest money in government securities
15. verb. provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest
16. verb. place or store up in a fund for accumulation
17. verb. convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds

Synonyms

stock, store

Common word forms

funds, fundal, funded, funder, funding, fundable, fundless

Words from these letters

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