fund
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)funds
- a reserve of money set aside for some purposeSynonyms: monetary fundType of moneyKinds budget, savings, revolving fund, trust fund, petty cash, sinking fund, pension fund, mutual fund, war chest, slush fund +1 more
- a supply of something available for future use“he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars”Synonyms: storestockType of accumulationKinds hoard, provision, infrastructure, seed stock, issue
- a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companiesSynonyms: investment companyinvestment trustinvestment firmType of nondepository financial institutionKinds hedge fund, mutual fund, face-amount certificate company, closed-end fund, unit investment trust, Real Estate Investment Trust, nondiscretionary trust
Verb (6)funds, funded, funding
- convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bondsMore general finance
- place or store up in a fund for accumulationMore general roll up, collect
- provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interestMore general supply, provide
- invest money in government securitiesMore general invest, put
- accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability“fund a medical care plan”More general roll up, collect
- furnish money for“The government funds basic research in many areas”More general supportMore specific absorb, grubstake, bankrollInvolves finance
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Translations
Noun sum or source of money
- Spanish
- fondo
- French
- fonds
- German
- Fonds
- Italian
- fondo
- Portuguese
- fundo
- Turkish
- fon
- Russian
- фонд fond
- Arabic
- صُنْدُوق ṣundūq
- Chinese
- 资金 zījīn
- Japanese
- 資金 shikin
20 more languages
- Dutch
- fonds
- Polish
- fundusz
- Swedish
- fond
- Greek
- κεφάλαιο kefálaio
- Korean
- 자금 jageum
- Indonesian
- dana
- Hungarian
- pénzalap
- Portuguese (PT)
- fundo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 資金 zījīn
- Czech
- fond
- Danish
- fond
- Finnish
- rahasto
- Georgian
- ფონდი pondi
- Hebrew
- קֶרֶן kéren
- Icelandic
- sjóður
- Lithuanian
- fondas
- Norwegian
- fond
- Romanian
- fond
- Scottish Gaelic
- ionmhas
- Welsh
- cronfa
Verb to pay for
- Spanish
- financiar
- French
- financer
- German
- finanzieren
- Italian
- finanziare
- Portuguese
- financiar
- Turkish
- finanse etmek
- Russian
- финанси́ровать finansírovatʹ
- Arabic
- مَوَّل mawwala
- Dutch
- financieren
- Polish
- finansować
11 more languages
- Greek
- χρηματοδοτώ chrimatodotó
- Vietnamese
- tài trợ
- Hungarian
- finanszíroz
- Portuguese (PT)
- financiar
- Catalan
- finançar
- Esperanto
- financi
- Estonian
- rahastama
- Finnish
- rahoittaa
- Hebrew
- מימן mimen
- Lithuanian
- finansuoti
- Norwegian
- finansiere
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.— Thomas Babington 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.
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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54