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Definitions of fund:

part of speech: participle

A permanent debt due by the government on which interest is paid; money.

part of speech: noun

Stock or capital; money set apart for carrying out some permanent or temporary object; a stock in reserve.

part of speech: noun

That out of which supplies are drawn; a stock or bank of money; ample store; permanent debts due by Government paying interest are called the funds or stocks.

part of speech: verb

To place money in a fund; to put lent money into the form of permanent bonds or stock bearing regular interest.

part of speech: verb transitive

To place in or turn into, a fund.

Usage examples for fund:

• I believe it is a very good fund a very useful one, and a very profitable one. "An Essay Upon Projects", Daniel Defoe

• But tell me, Sir William, where did your nephew acquire, at so early an age- eleven, you say, he is- such a fund of agreeable assurance?" "Devereux, Book I.", Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• In a word, the fund of the Grand Ducal settled estates. "Royal Highness", Thomas Mann

• At the end of his term Patrick Egan returned to his successor in the office 6, 000 dollars as his personal contribution to the Fund "The Life Story of an Old Rebel", John Denvir