fund Definition

fund
noun

1. A sum of money on which some enterprise is founded or on which the expenses of a project are supported.
2. A large store or supply.

Example: a fund of jokes
Thesaurus: treasury, reserve, well, repository, hoard, store, supply, pool.
3. colloq
Money available for spending.
Thesaurus: money, cash, capital, backing, savings, resources, finance, wherewithal, ready money, bread (slang), dough (slang).
Form: funds
4. British government securities paying fixed interest, which finance the national debt.

Form: funds

verb funded, funding

1. To provide money for a particular purpose.

Example: fund the project
Thesaurus: back, finance, endow, support, subsidize, underwrite, stake, capitalize.
2. To make (a debt) permanent, with fixed interest.

Derivative: funded

Invested in public funds.

Existing in the form of bonds.

Derivative: funder
noun

A financial backer.

Idiom: in funds

colloq
Having plenty of cash.

Etymology: 17c: from Latin fundus bottom.