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What (who) is fund - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Fund (disambiguation)
fund
n.
1) to establish, set up a fund
2) to administer, manage a fund
3) an inexhaustible fund
4) a contingency, emergency; pension; secret; sinking; slush; strike; trust fund
5) a mutual fund (AE; BE has unit trust)
fund
(funds, funding, funded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Funds are amounts of money that are available to be spent, especially money that is given to an organization or person for a particular purpose.
The concert will raise funds for research into Aids.
...government funds.
N-PLURAL
see also fund-raising
2.
A fund is an amount of money that is collected or saved for a particular purpose.
...a scholarship fund for undergraduate engineering students.
N-COUNT: oft n N
see also trust fund
3.
When a person or organization funds something, they provide money for it.
The airport is being privately funded by a construction group.
...a new privately funded scheme.
= finance
VERB: V n, V-ed
• -funded
...government-funded institutions.
COMB in ADJ
4.
If you have a fund of something, you have a lot of it.
He is possessed of an extraordinary fund of energy.
N-COUNT: N of n
Fund
·vt To place in a fund, as money.
II. Fund ·vt To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
III. Fund ·noun 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.
IV. Fund ·noun An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
V. Fund ·noun 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.
VI. Fund ·noun 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.
VII. Fund ·vt 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.
VIII. Fund ·noun 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.
Wikipedia
Fund
Fund may refer to:
- Funding is the act of providing resources, usually in form of money, or other values such as effort or time, for a project, a person, a business, or any other private or public institution
- The process of soliciting and gathering funds is known as fundraising
- An investment fund, often referred to as a fund
- Hedge fund, an investment vehicle open only to investors who are qualified in some way
- Mutual fund, a specific type of investment fund which pools money from many investors to purchase securities
- Sovereign wealth fund, a state-owned investment fund
- Fund accounting, nonprofit organizations and by the public sector
- Meir Fund, American rabbi
- FUND or FUND92, short names for the "International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992."
Examples of use of fund
1. The funds include the UK Growth Fund, the UK Bonus Income Fund, the Japan Bonus Fund, the Asia Opportunity Fund and the Global Commodity Income Fund.
2. This fund is not actually a pension fund despite the name, but a sovereign wealth fund.
3. From September, the Makefet pension fund, the Kagam pension fund and the Netiv pension fund will be added to the merged fund.
4. The fund categories included: money market (SR and USD); trade finance (SR/USD); North American, European, Japan, Asia equities; Global Bond Fund; Fund of Funds: Defensive (Low Risk); Fund of Funds: Balanced (Medium Risk); Fund of Funds: Growth (High Risk). The following were the categories for local equity and Shariah–compliant funds: Local Equity Fund; Local Equity Trading Fund Global Equity Fund; Shariah Compliant Local Equity Fund; Shariah Compliant Global Equity Fund; Shariah Compliant Fund of Funds: Defensive (Low Risk); Shariah Compliant Fund of Funds: Growth (High Risk); Overall Fund Manager.
5. In January 1'88, TSP added the common–stock fund, or C Fund, and a bond index fund, known as the F Fund.