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Another word for fund

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Noun

  1. The monetary resources of a government, organization, or individual.

      1. A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquefiable account.
      2. The official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government.
      3. Assets and property considered in terms of monetary value; wealth.
      1. The management of money, banking, investments, and credit.
      2. Monetary resources:
      3. The supplying of funds or capital.
    See also:

    money

Verb

  1. To supply capital to or for

      1. A roll of paper money.
      2. One's ready cash.
      3. To underwrite the expense of (a business venture, for example).
      1. To assist or support with a subsidy.
      2. To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy.
      1. A piece of wood or metal pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a marker, fence pole, or tent peg.
      2. A vertical post to which an offender is bound for execution by burning.
      3. Execution by burning. Used with the:
      1. Supplies or funds advanced to a mining prospector or a person starting a business in return for a promised share of the profits.
      2. To supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits.
      1. The management of money, banking, investments, and credit.
      2. Monetary resources:
      3. The supplying of funds or capital.
      1. To use as or convert into capital.
      2. To supply with capital or investment funds:
      3. To authorize the issue of a certain amount of capital stock of:
      1. The part of the trunk of the human body along and to the sides of the spine between the neck and the pelvis; the dorsum.
      2. The analogous dorsal region in other animals.
      3. The backbone or spine.
    Idioms:
    See also:

    money

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Another word for fund

Noun
      1. A place where things may be put for safekeeping.
      2. A warehouse.
      3. A museum.
      1. To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose:
      2. To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use:
      3. To keep or secure for oneself; retain:
      1. A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.
      2. A stock or supply reserved for future use:
      3. Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.
      1. A supply accumulated for future use; a store.
      2. The total merchandise kept on hand by a merchant, commercial establishment, warehouse, or manufacturer.
      3. All the animals kept or raised on a farm; livestock.
      1. To make available for use; provide:
      2. To provide something necessary or desired to; furnish or equip:
      3. To have as a necessary or desirable feature:
      1. A town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation.
      2. A city that is the center of a specific activity or industry:
      3. Wealth, especially in the form of financial or physical assets, used in the production or accumulation of more wealth.
      1. A collection of property, especially money and securities, held by one party, such as a parent, for the benefit of another, such as a child.
      1. The act of endowing.
      2. Funds or property donated to an institution, individual, or group as a source of income.
      3. A natural gift, ability, or quality.
    See also:

    reserve

Verb
      1. To assist or support with a subsidy.
      2. To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy.
      1. To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
      2. To equip or supply with a talent or quality:
      3. To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality:
      1. The part of the trunk of the human body along and to the sides of the spine between the neck and the pelvis; the dorsum.
      2. The analogous dorsal region in other animals.
      3. The backbone or spine.
      1. The management of money, banking, investments, and credit.
      2. Monetary resources:
      3. The supplying of funds or capital.
    See also:

    underwrite

    support

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Sentence Examples

  • I certainly couldn't fund the whole group.

  • Slater Fund, and the same sum from the General Education Board.

  • I hope that good people will continue to work for Tommy until his fund is completed, and education has brought light and music into his little life.

  • The commutation fund thus formed is a permanent memorial of a generous and disinterested act on the part of her ministry.

  • There was no college fund, either.

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