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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fuhnd
Phonetic Transcription : fʌnd



Definition of funds

Origin :
  • 1660s, from French fond "a bottom, floor, ground" (12c.), also "a merchant's basic stock or capital," from Latin fundus "bottom, foundation, piece of land," from PIE root *bhudh- "bottom, base" (cf. Sanskrit budhnah, Greek pythmen "foundation, bottom," Old English botm "lowest part;" see bottom (n.)). Funds "money at one's disposal" is from 1728. Fund-raiser (also fundraiser) first attested 1957.
  • noun cash reserve
Example sentences :
  • In Freedom's name, I send herewith a contribution to the funds of your society.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • It was, indeed, a desperate expedient for raising the funds.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
  • The funds so realized go into the coffers of the Church, which is fit and proper.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
  • I only ask that we should take counsel together so as to prevent the failure of your funds.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • And of course it was at the minute I was asked to account for the funds I had.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • Donovan had been for many years a generous subscriber to these funds.
  • Extract from : « The Island Mystery » by George A. Birmingham
  • He has no assistants, no funds, with which to conduct further experiments.
  • Extract from : « The Goat-gland Transplantation » by Sydney B. Flower
  • "You might have lost it in the funds, and had no pleasure for it," said Sir William, consolingly.
  • Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
  • This work alone brought no less a sum than 10,299 to the funds of the hospital.
  • Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) » by Various
  • Indeed, if by any turn of luck I was in funds myself, I 'd like to redeem it.
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever

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