Definition of Fund

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Definition of Fund

Fund

An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.

An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.

To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.

To place in a fund, as money.

To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

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Fund Quotations

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?
Rush Limbaugh

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
William Butler Yeats

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
Alan Greenspan

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.
John Gotti

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
Neil Gaiman

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Alfred Nobel

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
Edwin Louis Cole

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Daniel Boone

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.
Rod Blagojevich

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.
Rodrigo Rato

Fund Translations

fund in Afrikaans is fonds
fund in Dutch is fonds, kapitaal
fund in Finnish is rahasto, kassa
fund in French is caisse
fund in German is Kapital
fund in Norwegian is fond, finansiere, kapital
fund in Portuguese is fundo
fund in Spanish is caja
fund in Swedish is fondera, fond

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