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Funds

noun

1.

Assets in the form of money. Synonyms: cash in hand, finances, monetary resource, pecuniary resource.

Fund

noun

1.

A reserve of money set aside for some purpose. Synonym: monetary fund.

2.

A supply of something available for future use. Synonyms: stock, store.

3.

A financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies. Synonyms: investment company, investment firm, investment trust.

verb

(past & past part. funded; pres. part. funding)

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.

6.

Furnish money for.

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"Funds" Quotes from Famous Books

... states, was regularly supplied with funds by his real mother, gave him an excellent education and traveled with him extensively. In a plea for clemency he dwells upon the fact that his father died insane, that he himself suffered from epilepsy in his youth, and that at the age of twenty he spent a year ...

— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck

... people who had married their romance away, and fathered off their enthusiasm, abandoned themselves to even deeper anguish at the insecurity of property. So deeply had England's faith been anchored into the tenacity of Nelson. The fall of the funds when the victory was announced ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... the reason of this sensation, for I knew nothing of Miss Spencer's cousin. Since he was her cousin, the presumption was in his favor. But I felt suddenly uncomfortable at the thought that, half an hour after her landing, her scanty funds should have passed into ...

— Four Meetings • Henry James

... pompous old darling—still smarting under the insinuations you made about him and Nita right after the murder, volunteered the information to Peter that Nita had not paid her rent, on the plea that she was short of funds, and that he had told her to let it go until it was ...

— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin

... successive disasters, Kleist again fell seriously ill; for four months his friends had no word from him, and reports of his death were current. In November, 1809, he came to Frankfort-on-the-Oder to dispose of his share in the family home as a last means of raising funds, and again disappeared. In January, 1810, he passed through Frankfort on the way to Berlin, to which the Prussian court, now subservient to Napoleon, had returned. He found many old friends in Berlin, and even had prospects of recognition from the court, ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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