fund
See also: Fund
English
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Etymology
[edit]| PIE word |
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| *bʰudʰmḗn |
Borrowed from Latin fundus.[1] Doublet of fond and fundus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfʌnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌnd
Noun
[edit]fund (plural funds)
- A sum or source of money.
- the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
- a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
- An organization managing such money.
- A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
- Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
- A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
- He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
- 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
- an inexhaustible fund of stories
- 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
- He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun.
Derived terms
[edit]- alternative fund
- alternative investment fund
- balanced fund
- bond fund
- chit fund
- closed-end fund
- collateralized fund obligation
- consolidated fund
- contingencies fund
- equity fund
- feeder fund
- forfeiture fund
- fund house
- fund manager
- fund of funds
- fund-raiser
- fund-raising
- fun fund
- go-go fund
- growth fund
- health fund
- hedge fund
- honey fund
- income fund
- index fund
- investment fund
- load fund
- master fund
- money market fund
- money-market fund
- mutual fund
- no-load fund
- open-end fund
- pension fund
- pooled fund
- provident fund
- quant fund
- road fund licence
- sinking fund
- slush fund
- sovereign wealth fund
- stabilization fund
- stock fund
- trust fund
- trust fund baby
- umbrella fund
- vulture fund
- wage-fund doctrine
- yellow dog fund
Translations
[edit]sum or source of money
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organization
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money-management operation
Verb
[edit]fund (third-person singular simple present funds, present participle funding, simple past and past participle funded)
- (transitive) To pay or provide money for.
- He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.
- (transitive) To place (money) in a fund.
- (transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to pay for
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References
[edit]- ^ “fund, n.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fund m (plural funde, definite fundi, definite plural fundet)
Declension
[edit]Declension of fund
Derived terms
[edit]- fundërri (Tosk) [2]
- fundi (Tosk), funi (Gheg)
- fundit (Tosk), funit (Gheg)
- fundor (Tosk), funor (Gheg)
References
[edit]- ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 33, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
- ^ Dictionnaire Français-Albanais / Fjalor Shqip-Frengjisht, page 462, Vedat Kokona, Tiranë, 2002, →ISBN
Aromanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]fund n
- Alternative form of fundu
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verbal noun to finde (“to find”). Compare Old Norse fundr and German Fund.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fund n (singular definite fundet, plural indefinite fund)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of fund
Icelandic
[edit]Noun
[edit]fund
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]fund (plural fundes)
- Alternative form of feend
Old Norse
[edit]Noun
[edit]fund
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond, which was borrowed from French.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fund n (plural funduri)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | fund | fundul | funduri | fundurile | |
| genitive-dative | fund | fundului | funduri | fundurilor | |
| vocative | fundule | fundurilor | |||
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- fund in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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