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refunnel

refunnel verb: to redirect (money or resources) to another department or project.

Verb

refunnel (third-person singular simple present refunnels, present participle (US) refunneling or (UK) refunnelling, simple past and past participle (US) refunneled or (UK) refunnelled)

  1. (transitive) To redirect (money or resources) to another department or project.
    • But the slush stopped on Ms. Almodovar’s desk; fees paid by the developers are now refunneled into agency projects.2008 June 13, Robin Finn, “How to Curb Big Builders’ Big Appetites”, in New York Times

Forms of refunnel

third-person singular presentrefunnels
present participle USrefunneling
present participle UKrefunnelling
past participle USrefunneled
past USrefunneled
past participle UKrefunnelled
past UKrefunnelled

Origin of refunnel

From re- + funnel.

Questions about refunnel

What does refunnel mean?
Refunnel means to redirect (money or resources) to another department or project.
What part of speech is refunnel?
Refunnel is a verb.
What is the past tense of refunnel?
The past tense of refunnel is refunneled.

Words near refunnel in the dictionary

  1. refunding
  2. refundings
  3. refundment
  4. refundments
  5. refunds
  6. refunnel
  7. refunneled
  8. refunneling
  9. refunnelled
  10. refunnelling
  11. refurb

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