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honey fund

honey fund noun: a supply of honey, often created as a subsidy for beekeepers, or the funds used to purchase that supply. Also the alternative form of honeyfund.

Noun

honey fund (plural honey funds)

  1. A supply of honey, often created as a subsidy for beekeepers, or the funds used to purchase that supply.
    • Making hives would be a good occupation for many of our convalescent wounded men, and if every cottager wore presented with a hive of bees (surely some of the War Funds could start them, or a special Honey Fund be raised) it would be a great help to those who pine for sugar, especially for children...1917, The Spectator - Issues 4645-4670, page 85
    • The state treasurer shall deposit all moneys received under this Act in a special fund to be known as the honey fund. All moneys deposited in the honey fund shall, subject to legislative appropriation, be expended by the commissioner for use pursuant to this Act.1979, Laws Passed at the Session of the Legislative Assembly of North Dakota

Also used as

honey fund is also the alternative form of honeyfund.

Examples of honey fund in a sentence

  • Home-made toys, small children's clothes and tons of honey contributed from a honey fund raised by Woodford House girls and old girls were sent as Christmas gifts to Hastings, England.1984, Mary Beatrice Boyd, City of the Plains: A History of Hastings, →ISBN, page 308:
  • While administrative charges take up only 5 per cent of wool funds, administrative charges take up to 20 per cent of poultry research funds and 17 per cent of honey funds.1985, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Representatives:

Forms of honey fund

pluralhoney funds

Questions about honey fund

What does honey fund mean?
Honey fund means a supply of honey, often created as a subsidy for beekeepers, or the funds used to purchase that supply.
How do you use honey fund in a sentence?
Home-made toys, small children's clothes and tons of honey contributed from a honey fund raised by Woodford House girls and old girls were sent as Christmas gifts to Hastings, England.
What part of speech is honey fund?
Honey fund is a noun.
What is the plural of honey fund?
The plural of honey fund is honey funds.

Words near honey fund in the dictionary

  1. honey drizzler
  2. honey drizzlers
  3. honey extractor
  4. honey extractors
  5. honey flower
  6. honey fund
  7. honey funds
  8. honey fungi
  9. honey fungus
  10. honey grass
  11. honey guide

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