1 [C] an amount of money that has been saved or has been made available for a particular purpose:
a disaster relief fund * the company's pension fund * the International Monetary Fund
2 (funds) [pl.] money that is available to be spent:
government funds * The hospital is trying to raise funds for a new kidney machine. * The project has been cancelled because of lack of funds * I'm short of funds at the moment-can I pay you back next week?
3 [sing.] of sth an amount or a supply of sth:
a fund of knowledge
verb [VN] to provide money for sth, usually sth official:
a dance festival funded by the Arts Council * The museum is privately funded. * a government-funded programme
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fund is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fund a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fund is tagged as noun.
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