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fundraise

US/ˈfʌndˌɹeɪz/

fundraise verb: to raise funds (for a specified cause or purpose).

Verb

fundraise (third-person singular simple present fundraises, present participle fundraising, simple past and past participle fundraised)

  1. (intransitive) To raise funds (for a specified cause or purpose).
    • Daniel's uncle volunteered to help fundraise for his nephew's class trip to Chile
    Synonyms:
    collect

Synonyms of fundraise

Forms of fundraise

third-person singular presentfundraises
present participlefundraising
past participlefundraised
pastfundraised

Past tense of fundraise: fundraised

Origin of fundraise

From fund + raise, probably a back-formation from fundraising.

Questions about fundraise

What does fundraise mean?
Fundraise means to raise funds (for a specified cause or purpose).
What part of speech is fundraise?
Fundraise is a verb.
How do you pronounce fundraise?
Fundraise is pronounced /ˈfʌndˌɹeɪz/ (US).
What is the past tense of fundraise?
The past tense of fundraise is fundraised.

Words near fundraise in the dictionary

  1. fundoscopic
  2. fundoscopies
  3. fundoscopy
  4. fundoshi
  5. fundoshis
  6. fundraise
  7. fundraised
  8. fundraiser
  9. fundraisers
  10. fundraises
  11. fundraising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fundraise (page history and authors). 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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