fund
See also: Fund
English
Etymology
PIE word |
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*bʰudʰmḗn |
Borrowed from Latin fundus.[1] Doublet of fond and fundus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfʌnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌnd
Noun
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
- 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
- fundage
- fundholder
- fundholding
- fund house
- fundless
- fund manager
- fund of funds
- fundraise
- fund-raiser
- fundraiser
- fund-raising
- fundraising
- fun fund
- go-go fund
- green fund
- growth fund
- health fund
- hedge fund
- honey fund
- honeyfund
- income fund
- index fund
- interfund
- investment fund
- load fund
- master fund
- megafund
- microfund
- 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
- subfund
- Superfund
- superfund
- trust fund
- trust fund baby
- umbrella fund
- vulture fund
- wage-fund doctrine
- yellow dog fund
Translations
sum or source of money
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organization
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money-management operation
Verb
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
Translations
to pay for
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References
- ^ “fund, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fund]
Noun
fund m (plural funde, definite fundi, definite plural fundet)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | fund | fundi | funde | fundet |
accusative | fundin | |||
dative | fundi | fundit | fundeve | fundeve |
ablative | fundesh |
Derived terms
- fundërri (Tosk) [2]
- fundi (Tosk), funi (Gheg)
- fundit (Tosk), funit (Gheg)
- fundor (Tosk), funor (Gheg)
References
- ^ 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
Further reading
- “fund”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1], 1980
- Newmark, L. (1999) “fund”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Noun
fund n
- alternative form of fundu
Danish
Etymology
Verbal noun to finde (“to find”). Compare Old Norse fundr and German Fund.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfɔnˀ]
Noun
fund n (singular definite fundet, plural indefinite fund)
Inflection
neuter gender |
singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | fund | fundet | fund | fundene |
genitive | funds | fundets | funds | fundenes |
Icelandic
Noun
fund
- indefinite accusative singular of fundur
Middle English
Noun
fund (fundes)
- alternative form of fend
Old Norse
Noun
fund
- accusative/dative singular of fundr
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond, which was borrowed from French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fund]
Audio: (file) Audio: (file)
Noun
fund n (plural funduri)
Declension
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
Related terms
See also
References
- “fund”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025