Fund

Definition: Fund

Fund

Noun

1. A reserve of money set aside for some purpose.

2. A supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars".

3. A financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies.

Verb

1. Convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds.

2. Place or store up in a fund for accumulation.

3. Provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest.

4. Invest money in government securities.

5. Accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan".

6. Furnish money for; "The government funds basic research in many areas".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fund" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Finance

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Fund

Store

Verb: store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart; store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save.

Stock in trade, supply; heap; (collection); treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche.

Noun: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.

Treasury

Sinking fund; stocks; public stocks, public funds, public securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary securities; Consols, credit mobilier; bonds.

Crosswords: Fund

Albanian (back, base, bed, bottom, death, decease, decline, doom, end, ending, epilogue, extremity, finality, finish, foot, foundation, ground, Omega, petticoat, quietus, rock bottom, skirt, sole, stub, tag, tail, tailpiece, terminal, termination), Faeroese (meeting), German (discovery, find, finding, strike), Hawaiian (bottom, foundation, ground), Romanian (back, background, bottom, buttocks, crown, depth, end, floor, ground, head, rear, seat, sole).

trust fund goody-goody? (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

Like fund raising? (Kim Possible; writing credit: Julie DuFine; Madellaine Paxson)

Sure, they all love you until they go after your trust fund like a pack of rabid wolves! (Spider-Man; writing credit: Stan Lee; Steve Ditko)

1968: The perfect high. 1998: The perfect high-yield mutual fund. (references; author: unknown)

The Save the Children Fund Film (1971)

Cancer Fund Film Notables Attend Glittering Benefits (1951)

The Jimmy Fund for Boston's Children's Hospital (1950)

How Eve Helped the War Fund (1918)

Actors' Fund Field Day (1910)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• ABN AMRO All In Fund NV: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Advance Property Fund: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Alpha Trust Asset Manager Fund: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Capital Property Fund: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• CBD Property Fund: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Permanent school fund in South Dakota and the Beadle Club (reference)

• Morningstar Mutual Fund Report: AAL Balanced A [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Thomson Financial Mutual Fund Report : AALGX: AAL Capital Growth Class A Fund [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Urinary Calculi: Recent Advances in Aetiology, Stone Structure and Treatment: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Renal Stone Research, Fund (reference)

• Absolute Returns: The Risk and Opportunities of Hedge Fund Investing (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• European Fund Industry Directory (reference)

• Fund Action (reference)

• Fund Raising Placement Newsletter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Gala Concert for the Benefit of the Pension Fund (reference)

• Negativland Presents Over the Edge, Vol. 2: Pastor Dick - Muriel's Purse Fund (reference)

• Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Benefit Album (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

African American farmer Bennie Butler talks with Claude Gordon from the Federation of Southern cooperatives, Land Assistance fund on his farm in Calhoun County, GA. Credit: USDA.

[United Givers Fund at NIH]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 57, Paris, France. : Garbage is kept in cans and sold to a farmer, the proceeds are given to the mess fund. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

News note: Chairman Raskob has just paid an additional thirty thousand dollars to the National Democratic Fund. Credit: Library of Congress.

Child sitting on steps outside of house, North Carolina] / Billy Barnes for the North Carolina Fund. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sunset theatre & cafe / Billy Barnes for the North Carolina Fund. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hardwick, Vermont. A few of the hundreds of items being donated and sold at the Victory Store, the money from which goes into a local war fund. Credit: Library of Congress.

Some good Vermont hard maple is delivered to the victory store at Hardwick by A.J. Larrabee who is making his donation to the war fund sale in firewood. Credit: Library of Congress.

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation window display: 1943 war fund. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hold up your end! War fund week - one hundred million dollars / W. B. King. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The dates for payment of interest, the manner of applying the amortisation fund, and all other questions relating to the issue, management and regulation of the bond issue shall be determined by the Commission from time to time. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He built, at his own expense, a house of refuge, an institution then almost unknown in France, and provided a fund for old and infirm labourers.

Or, if that fund be deficient, it is largely supplied by the Crown.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Other NIH institutes that fund AD research also will be closely involved. (references)

The fact that controversy exists regarding home apnea monitoring reflects an inadequate fund of knowledge. (references)

The level of concern is high, the need for definition and knowledge helpful to the clinician is evident, and the overall fund of knowledge is inadequate. (references)

Business

The ECON Fund funds the audits. (references)

Private equity fund involvement in the sector. (references)

This will lead to a fund of about 25 trillion drachmas. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

Those who fail to do so must pay a fine, the proceeds of which go to a fund for persons with disabilities. (references)

Morocco

The King's charity, the Mohammed V Solidarity Fund, makes several donations each year to institutions supporting persons with disabilities. (references)

Canada

In May 2000, the Catholic Church announced that it would participate in a "compassion fund," but would not issue a formal apology or admit fault in the cases. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burundi

International donors also fund the RPA. (references)

Nigeria

However, state funds also are used to fund Christian pilgrimages to Jerusalem. (references)

Romania

The Interior Ministry and the Labor Ministry fund programs to assist asylum seekers and refugees. (references)

Economic History

Belarus

Democracy fund small grants program. (references)

Togo

The ECOWAS development fund is based in Lome. (references)

Indonesia

The proceeds were used to fund the development budget. (references)

Human Rights

China

In late 1998, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) launched a 4-year pilot project in 32 counties. (references)

Azerbaijan

The Government accused some human rights activists of working in the interests of foreign governments that fund them. (references)

India

Government agencies fund, exchange intelligence with, and direct operations of countermilitants as part of the counterinsurgency effort. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

The fund is a separate initiative from the Native Title Tribunal, that is, the fund is not for payment of compensation to indigenous people for loss of land or to titleholders for return of land to indigenous people. (references)

Venezuela

In July 2000, a total of 55 of the 58 Pemon communities affected by the power lines signed an agreement with the Government that pledged to establish a commission for the demarcation of native lands and to create a development fund for indigenous people. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

Also, contrary to the law, the state pension fund unilaterally and improperly denied some pension applications from ethnic Serbs. (references)

Political Economy

HONG KONG

The Corporation is 100 percent government owned through the Exchange Fund. (references)

GREECE

Greece is not a recipient of World Bank loans or International Monetary Fund programs. (references)

AUSTRIA

Of these fees, 51 percent are paid into a fund dedicated to social and cultural projects. (references)

Political Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croat businesspersons reported that HDZ supporters demanded that they pay a special tax to fund the self-government effort and threatened "accidents" if they did not. (references)

Yemen

The Parliament also has criticized strongly the Government for some actions, including the lifting of subsidies and other economic reform measures mandated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (references)

Trade

Georgia

Capitalization of the fund is currently USD 92 million. (references)

Travel

New Zealand

The New Zealand health system consists of public, private and voluntary sectors that interact to provide and fund health care. (references)

Costa Rica

All Costa Rican workers and their dependents are covered by a public health care system administered by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social-CCSS). (references)

Women

Korea

The law also provides for a public fund to support victims in seeking legal redress. (references)

Worker Rights

Austria

In July the first payments from the $400 million (6 billion ATS) fund were sent to victims of forced and slave labor. (references)

Nepal

Health and safety standards and other benefits such as a provident fund and maternity benefits also are established in the act. (references)

Brazil

The ILO plans to fund research, launch a public awareness campaign, and provide training for government agencies involved in curbing forced labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "fund": "Mutual Help" General Social Fund for the Improvement of Public Health ♦ Arab Monetary Fund ♦ Asian Recovery Fund ♦ benevolent fund ♦ bridal fund ♦ capital fund ♦ circulating capital fund ♦ closed fund ♦ credit fund ♦ demand fund ♦ depreciation fund ♦ diversified common stock fund ♦ employee fund ♦ employee pension fund ♦ endowment fund ♦ entertainment fund ♦ equalization fund ♦ european fund ♦ Fee fund ♦ fighting fund ♦ fund raise ♦ fund raiser ♦ fund raising ♦ grant fund ♦ hedge fund ♦ Hedge Fund Research ♦ Imprest fund ♦ index fund ♦ index tracking fund management ♦ industry fund ♦ insurance fund ♦ international monetary fund ♦ international montary fund ♦ investment fund ♦ kings fund ♦ King's Fund ♦ King's Fund hospital bedsteads ♦ managed fund ♦ matching fund ♦ monetary fund ♦ mutual fund ♦ National Fund of the Republic of Austria for victims of national socialism ♦ non allocated fund ♦ passive fund management ♦ pension fund ♦ petty cash fund ♦ provident fund ♦ raise a fund ♦ raise fund ♦ real estate fund ♦ redemption fund ♦ reinsurance fund ♦ relief fund ♦ reserve fund ♦ reserved fund ♦ retirement fund ♦ Revolving fund ♦ road fund license ♦ saving fund ♦ savings fund ♦ secret fund ♦ sector fund ♦ sight fund ♦ sinking fund ♦ sinking fund bond ♦ slush fund ♦ special reserve fund ♦ speciality fund ♦ specialized fund ♦ strike fund ♦ superannuation fund ♦ sustentation fund ♦ The Consolidated Fund ♦ theoric fund ♦ trust fund ♦ unemployment fund ♦ unemployment insurance fund ♦ United Nations Children's Fund ♦ United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund ♦ unvouchered fund ♦ vulture fund ♦ wage fund ♦ wages fund. Additional references.

Beginning with "fund": fund-holder, fund-holders, fund-holding, fund-inspired, fund-management, fund-matching, fund-raise, fund-raiser, fund-raisers, fund-raises, fund-raising, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort, fund-worthy.

Ending with "fund": pension-fund.

Containing "fund": sinking-fund loan.

Afrikaans

fonds. (various references)

Albanian

fond (bankroll, reserve, stock). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موارد مالية (exchequer, funding, funds, means), ‏صندوق منظمة, ‏صندوق (ark, bin, box, case, chest, container, crate, hutch, kitty, locker, rack, receiver, till), ‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏إعتماد مالي (supply), ‏رصد مبلغا, ‏رأسمال, ‏دخر (enshrine, garner, hoard, husband, lay by, lay up, put aside, put by, reserve, save, set, set apart, set aside, siphon, skimp, sock away, spare, stash, store). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фонд (endowment), финансирам (finance, habilitate), капитал (capital), влагам пари в ценни книжа, запас (army reserve, arrearage, backlog, hoard, reserve, reservoir, stock, store, supply). (various references)

Catalan

caixa (cashier's stand, money box, money-box, till). (various references)

Chinese 

资金 (funds), 筆錢 , 基金 . (various references)

Czech

fond (collection), financovat (finance, support), zásoba (bank, hoard, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, supply), rezerva (reserve), pokladnice (store, storehouse). (various references)

Danish

kollektiv investeringsinstitut (pooled investment), investeringsforening (commodity fund, commodity pool, FCIMT, futures fund, managed futures fund, mutual fund, unit trust), institut for kollektiv investering i værdipapirer (pooled investment). (various references)

Dutch

kapitaal (capital, capital letter), fonds (cashier's stand, money box, money-box, till). (various references)

Esperanto

fonduso, kaso (cashier's stand, money box, money-box, till). (various references)

Faeroese

peningakassi (cashier's stand, money box, money-box, till). (various references)

Finnish

rahasto (foundation, treasury). (various references)

French

caisse, fonds (funds). (various references)

German

kapital (asset, capital, capital investments, capitally, major, noble, principal, royal), fonds (government bond). (various references)

Greek 

απόθεμα (backlog, hoard, reserve, stock). (various references)

Hawaiian

fond. (various references)

Hebrew 

מתרים (collector, fund raiser), מ�'בית (appeal, collection, fund raising), קרן מלואים (reserve fund), קרן שמור�" (reserve fund), קרן חשאית (slush fund), �"ון יסו�"י (capital fund), �"כ� סת כל�" (bridal fund, wedding ceremony). (various references)

Hungarian

alap (base, basis, bedrock, bottom, cause, chief, claim, footing, foundation, foundations, grounding, groundwork, main, patten, principle, substrate, substructure). (various references)

Indonesian

fonds, mendanai (finance), dana (donation, grant). (various references)

Italian

fondo (back, background, bed, bottom, deep, depth, dregs, end, estate, floor, foundation, ground, heart, lowness, nature, profound, property, seat, sole). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

基金 (foundation), ファロー鹿 (fallow deer, fan, fan club, fancy, fancy ball, fancy dress, fancy food, fancy goods, fancy store, fanfare, fan-jet, fan-out, fantastic, fantasy, feasibility study, feature, feed, feedback, feeder, feeding, feet, foot, foundation, fumble, fun, fun fair, function, function key, functor, fund manager, fund trust, fundamental, fundamentals, funk, funky, phantom). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ファンド , きき�" (contribution, donation, famine, foundation). (various references)

Korean 

기금 (funds). (various references)

Manx

stoyr (deposit, depot, hoard, repertory, repository, still room, stock, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply), cur argid da. (various references)

Norwegian

kasse (cashier's stand, crate, money box, money-box, till). (various references)

Pig Latin

undfay

Portuguese

fundo de investimentos mobiliários (pooled investment), fundo de investimentos aberto (mutual fund, unit trust), financiar (finance), valor disponível, reserva (backlog, booking, discretion, fallback, freehand, hoard, privacy, proviso, qualification, reservation, reservoir, restriction, reticence, salvo, secrecy, stealth, stockpile, store), recursos financeiros (financial resources), provisão (budget, food, provision, ration, reserve, reservoir, stock, store, supply), juntar (accumulate, add, adjoin, affix, amass, annex, annexe, append, assemble, attach, brace, bulk, cohere, collect, conjoin, connect, couple, enclose, gather, get-together, halve, heap, herd, huddle, inclose, inosculate, join, joining, joint, mass, mix, muster, piece, piece together, put to, put together, rake, reunite, run-on, seam, splice, stash, subjoin, tack, unite, weld), consolidar (brace, cement, consolidate, reinforce, secure, weld), cofre (ash-bin, cashier's stand, chest, coffer, dower-chest, money box, safe, safe deposit box, save-all, strongbox, vault), capital disponível (capital at hand), caixa (ash-box, bank window, bin, box, bunker, cage, cash keeper, cashier, cashier's stand, chest, coalscuttle, coffer, desk, hutch, jug, kit, money box, pay-box, receiver, safe, sheath, teller, treasurer, vessel, writing-table), base (base, basis, bed, foot, foothold, foundation, founding, fundamental, ground, grounding, groundwork, hornbook, patten, pedestal, principle, radical, root, sabot, seat, sinew, sole, stool, substruction, substructure), acumular (accumulate, amass, bank, build up, coffer, collect, combine, congest, cumulate, heap, jam, load, mass, mound, pack, pile up, stack, stash, stuff). (various references)

Romanian

fonduri, fond (background, bottom, content, elements, essence, field, gist, ground, groundwork, gut, matter, spine, staple, stock, substance, sum, supply), stoc (hoard, reserve, stock, store, supply), plasa bani în fonduri publice, consolida (bind, brace, bracket, confirm, consolidate, fix, fortify, reinforce, rivet, secure, solidify, steady, stiffen, strengthen), capital (assets, capital, chief, corpus, essential). (various references)

Russian 

резерв (reserve, resv, stockpile), финансировать (finance), капитал (capital), запас (arrearage, grist, hoard, margin, provision, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, store of, supply), денежные средства (bankroll). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fundirati, fond, finansirati (finance, sponsor), pretvoriti u fond. (various references)

Spanish

caja (barrel, body, box, case, cash, cash desk, cashbox, cashier's stand, casing, checkbox, checkout, chest, container, crate, cushion, drawer, housing, jug, money box, money-box, pay office, paydesk, shaft, shell, slush fund, take, till, vessel, well). (various references)

Swedish

fond (back, background, capital, centre, foundation, stock, store), fondera (consolidate). (various references)

Thai

กองทุน (องค์กร, หน่วยงาน), ทุน, หาทุนให้, ของที่สำรองไว้, จั�"หาเงินไว้ใช้หนี้. (various references)

Turkish

fon (background, ground color, ground colour, groundwork, phon, pool, reserve), yatırmak (bed, credit, deposit, embark, incline, instate, invest, lay down, lay low, pay into, place, put to bed, put to sleep, repose, repose on, shelter, sink, subscribe), yatırım yapmak (invest, invest in, place, put), sermayeye çevirmek, sermaye (capital, corpus, principal, stock, stock in trade), para kaynağı (funds), kaynak (authorship, basis, beginning, birth, bottom, chapter and verse, context, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, genesis, grass roots, headspring, inquiries, origin, parent, paternity, principle, provenance, quarter, reserve, resource, rise, root, root stock, roots, seeds, source, source material, source of supply, spore, spring, weld, welding, well, wellhead, wellspring, womb), ödenek (allocation, allowance, appropriation, award, grant, grant-in-aid, pork, supply). (various references)

Turkmen 

fond (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

фінансувати (finance), фонд (bank, chest, fond, stock), консолідувати (consolidate), капітал (boodle, capital, principal), організація (army, establishment, ordonnance, organism, organization), запас (arrearage, grist, hoard, holding, margin, reserve, spare, stockpile, store, supply). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quỹ xây dựng v� bảo dưỡng cầu đường (road fund), quỹ cứu tế (relief fund), quỹ bán mỡ thừa (slush fund), quỹ bí mật (yellow-dog fund). (various references)

Welsh

trysordy (treasury), cronfa (reservoir). (various references)

fiscus, fundus. (various references)

fond. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fund": fundament, fundamental, fundamentalism, fundamentalisms, fundamentalist, fundamentalistic, fundamentalists, fundamentally, fundamentals, fundaments, funded, fundi, fundic, funding, fundraiser, fundraisers, fundraising, fundraisings, funds, fundus. (additional references)

Words ending with "fund": defund, overfund, refund, superfund, underfund. (additional references)

Words containing "fund": defunded, defunding, defunds, infundibula, infundibular, infundibuliform, infundibulum, latifundia, latifundio, latifundios, latifundium, nonrefundable, overfunded, overfunding, overfunds, profundities, profundity, refundabilities, refundability, refundable, refunded, refunder, refunders, refunding, refunds, superfunds, underfunded, underfunding, underfunds, unfunded. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fund" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faund, fendi, fendo, Fendt, fenmd, findi, findl, findo, Fnuf, Fondo, fuad, fudd, fuddi, fudo, fuhn, Fuld, fuln, fum, Fumd, func, funcd, Funda, fundap, fundi, fundo, fundy, fune, funed, funf, fung, funi, funn, Funna, funo, funrd, Funt, funti, Furnad, fynd, gund, nund, tund, Ufdc, ufend, ufmd, Uncd, Undd. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dun, fud, fun.

-2 letters: nu, un.

+1 letter: fondu, found, fundi, funds, unfed.

+2 letters: defund, fecund, fondue, fondus, founds, funded, fundic, fundus, funked, funned, refund, unfold, unfond.

+3 letters: cofound, defunct, defunds, feuding, flunked, fondues, founded, founder, foundry, fudging, funding, fungoid, handful, infused, mindful, needful, outfind, refound, refunds, snafued, snuffed, unfaded, unfaked, unfazed, unfired, unfixed, unfolds, unfound, unfreed, unfused, unified.

+4 letters: cofounds, confound, confused, confuted, dandruff, defunded, defusing, defuzing, dumfound, engulfed, finitude, flaunted, flounced, flounder, fogbound, fortuned, founders, founding, foxhound, frondeur, frounced, fuddling, fulmined, fungoids, funneled, furibund, furnaced, handcuff, handfuls, handsful, infecund, ingulfed, needfuls, newfound, nonfluid, outfinds, outfound, overfund, profound, refounds, refunded, refunder, snuffled, unafraid, uncuffed, underfed, underfur, unfading, unfeared, unfenced, unfilled, unfilmed, unfished, unfitted, unflexed, unfoiled, unfolded, unfolder, unforced, unforged, unforked, unformed, unframed, unfunded, unfurled, ungifted, unrifled, unroofed, unsifted, untufted, windsurf.

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