fund
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fund/fʌnd/
▶noun
- 1 a sum of money saved or made available for a particular purpose.
- 2 (funds) financial resources.
- 3 a large stock.
– phrases
in funds Brit. having money to spend.
in funds Brit. having money to spend.
– derivatives
funder noun,
funding noun.
funder noun,
funding noun.
– origin C17: from L. fundus ‘bottom, piece of landed property’.
'fund' also found in these Oxford entries:
bagman
- bazaar
- community chest
- contributory
- disburse
- EMF
- fighting fund
- fund-raiser
- guarantee fund
- hedge fund
- IMF
- imprest
- kitty
- managed fund
- management company
- mutual fund
- no-load
- pension
- pool
- provident fund
- refund
- road fund
- road fund licence
- roll-up
- SDR
- sinking fund
- slush fund
- social fund
- special drawing rights
- sponsor
- stakeholder pension
- superannuation
- supererogation
- tent pole
- tontine
- top-slice
- tronc
- Trustafarian
- trust fund
- umbrella fund
- UNFPA
- unfunded
- UNICEF
- vulture fund
- walkathon
- WWF
