fund
/ˈfʌnd/
fund noun: a sum or source of money.
Noun
fund (plural funds)
- A sum or source of money.
- the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
- a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
- An organization managing such money.
- A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
- Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
- A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
- He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
- an inexhaustible fund of stories1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...
Verb
fund (third-person singular simple present funds, present participle funding, simple past and past participle funded)
fund meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
fund in Hindi
- sum or source of money
- निधि nidhi, कोश koś, पूंजी pūñjī
fund in Tamil
- நிதி, நிதியளி, வைப்பளி, வைப்பு
fund in Urdu
- sum or source of money
- سَرْمایَہ sarmāya, پُون٘جی pūñjī
fund in Bengali
- sum or source of money
- নিধি nidhi, কোষ kōś, পুঁজি pũji
More languagesFewer languages
- fund in Telugu
- నిధి, ఫండ్
- fund in Malayalam
- നിധി nidhi
- fund in Kannada
- ಬಂಡವಾಳ, ಪುದವಟ್ಟು, ಗಂಟು, ಸ್ಥಿರನಿಧಿ
- fund in Gujarati
- ફંડ
- fund in Pashto
- سرمايه sarmāyá
- fund in Tagalog
- pondo
- fund in Arabic
- ذَخِيرَة ḏaḵīra, مَوَّل mawwal
- fund in Malay
- dana
- fund in Indonesian
- dana
- fund in Thai
- กองทุน gɔɔng-tun, ทุน tun
- fund in Vietnamese
- quỹ, tài trợ
- fund in Myanmar
- ရန်ပုံငွေ ranpumngwe
Examples of fund in a sentence
- For financial reasons, we're not going to be able to continue to fund this program.
- The Ministry of Defence funded the development of an entirely new radar and improved avionics.
- It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.
Forms of fund
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | funds |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | funds |
| present participle | funding |
| past participle | funded |
| past | funded |
Origin of fund
PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Borrowed from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus.
Words formed from fund
- alternative fund
- alternative investment fund
- balanced fund
- bond fund
- CAT fund
- chit fund
- closed-end fund
- collateralized fund obligation
- consolidated fund
- contingencies fund
- equity fund
- exchange-traded fund
- feeder fund
- forfeiture fund
- fundage
- fundholder
- fundholding
- fund house
- fundless
- fund manager
- fund of funds
- fundraise
- fundraiser
- fund-raiser
- fundraising
- fund-raising
- fun fund
- go-go fund
- green fund
- growth fund
- health fund
- hedge fund
- honey fund
- honeyfund
- income fund
- index fund
- interfund
- investment fund
- load fund
- master fund
- megafund
- microfund
- money-market fund
- money market fund
- mutual fund
- no-load fund
- open-end fund
- pension fund
- pooled fund
- provident fund
- quant fund
- road fund licence
- sinking fund
- slush fund
- sovereign wealth fund
- stabilization fund
- stock fund
- subfund
- Superfund
- trust fund
Phrases with fund
Words that rhyme with fund
Questions about fund
- What does fund mean?
- Fund means a sum or source of money.
- What is fund in Hindi?
- Fund in Hindi is निधि (nidhi), कोश (koś), पूंजी (pūñjī). See Fund meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fund?
- Fund can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fund?
- Fund is pronounced /ˈfʌnd/.
- What is the plural of fund?
- The plural of fund is funds.
Words near fund in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fund (page history and authors); fund (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fund (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); നിധി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); fund (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fund (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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