fund Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a reserve of money set aside for some purpose
    monetary fund.
  2. noun a supply of something available for future use
    store; stock.
    • he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
  3. noun a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies
    investment firm; investment trust; investment company.
  4. verb convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds
  5. verb place or store up in a fund for accumulation
  6. verb provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest
  7. verb invest money in government securities
  8. verb accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability
    • fund a medical care plan
  9. verb furnish money for
    • The government funds basic research in many areas

WordNet

Fund noun
Etymology
OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.
Definitions
  1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
  2. 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.
  3. pl. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
    An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay.
Fund transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Funded; present participle & verbal noun Funding
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. To place in a fund, as money.
  3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

Webster 1913