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Synonyms for fund

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : fuhnd
Phonetic Transcription : fÊŒnd

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Définition of fund

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 repository, reserve
  • verb provide money for
Example sentences :
  • In ten minutes the fund had reached over six hundred dollars.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • On the other hand, he might have been suspected of hiding a fund of reckless naughtiness.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • In connection with his brothers, he made the first subscription to that fund.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • He looks upon me as a sort of fund that has to be placed or sunk or something, somewhere.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • Happy, healthy, hearty and with a fund of good nature that nothing could daunt.
  • Extract from : « Frank Roscoe's Secret » by Allen Chapman
  • They added nothing to the fund of human knowledge, or to his own.
  • Extract from : « Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia » by Various
  • It must be invested with fidelity and the fund be kept intact.
  • Extract from : « American Rural Highways » by T. R. Agg
  • Did she not know it out of the fund of her own bitter experience?
  • Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
  • His fund of energy and enthusiasm was inexhaustible, like that of his good humour.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Then, too, she has a fund of knowledge that is amazing, when all the circumstances are considered.
  • Extract from : « A Waif of the Mountains » by Edward S. Ellis

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