Word Meaning

fund definition and meaning

n. Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.
n. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
n. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
n. The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.
n. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.
n. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.
v. t. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.
v. t. To place in a fund, as money.
v. t. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

Crossword clues for fund

- A little dysfunction is amusing
- blithe
- diverting
- Enjoy oneself, have ...
- Enjoyment
- Enjoyment or amusement
- Entertaining middling refunds?
- Girls Just Want To Have ...
- Good time
- Good times
- High jinks
- Hilarity
- Joke prank
- jolliness
- Levity
- Playfulness in being oddly fluent
- Zingy
- Available money
- Finance
- Financially back
- Loan shark
- Monetary source
- Money reserve
- Pool
- pool of cash
- Pool of money
- Provide financial backing
- Reserve of money
- Stock of money
- Take care of