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What's The Definition Of Fund?
[n] a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies
[n] a reserve of money set aside for some purpose [n] a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars" [v] furnish money for; "The government funds basic research in many areas" [v] accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan" [v] invest money in government securities [v] provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest [v] place or store up in a fund for accumulation [v] convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds Synonyms | Synonyms for Fund: investment company | investment firm | investment trust | monetary fund | stock | store Related Terms | Find terms related to Fund: accommodate | acknowledge | afford | afford support | aid | ana | angel | anthology | aquarium | assets | assist | available means | back | balance | bank account | bankroll | bear | bear out | bear the expense | bear up | body | bolster | bolster up | bottom dollar | bread | bucks | budget | buttress | cache | capital | capital gains distribution | capital goods | capital structure | capitalization | capitalize | cash reserves | checking account | chip in | chrestomathy | circulating capital | clothe | collectanea | collection | command of money | compilation | contribute | corpus | crutch | data | defray | defray expenses | donate | dough | endow | endowment | equity capital | exchequer | Festschrift | fill | fill up | finance | finances | find | fixed capital | floating capital | florilegium | foot the bill | funds | furnish | give | give support | go Dutch | grant | green | grist | grubstake | hard cash | help | hold up | holdings | honor a bill | inventory | invest | keep | kitty | lend support | library | life savings | liquid assets | lolly | loot | lucre | maintain | make available | make provision for | means | menagerie | mine | money | moneyed capital | moneys | museum | nest egg | patronize | pay for | pay the bill | pay the bills | pay the piper | pecuniary resources | pelf | pension | pension off | pocket | pool | prepare | present | principal | prop | prop up | property | provide | provide for | purse | raw data | ready | ready money | recruit | redeem | refinance | reinforce | replenish | repository | reserve | reserves | reservoir | resource | resources | savings | savings account | scratch | set up | shore | shore up | sponsor | stake | stand the costs | stock | store | subsidize | substance | subvention | subventionize | supply | support | sustain | Swiss bank account | treasure | undergird | unregistered bank account | upbear | uphold | upkeep | venture capital | wealth | wherewithal | working capital | yield | zoo See Also | absorb | accumulate | accumulation | amass | bank deposit | bankroll | base | budget | cache | closed-end fund | closed-end investment company | collect | commit | compile | deposit | face-amount certificate company | finance | fixed investment trust | furnish | grubstake | hedge fund | hoard | hoard | infrastructure | invest | money | mutual fund | nest egg | nondepository financial institution | nondiscretionary trust | open-end fund | open-end investment company | pension fund | petty cash | pile up | place | provide | provisions | put | Real Estate Investment Trust | REIT | render | revolving fund | savings | seed stock | sinking fund | slush fund | stash | stores | superannuation fund | supplies | supply | support | take over | trust fund | unit investment trust | unit trust | war chest Fund In Webster's Dictionary \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\, 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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