transcription, транскрипция: [ fʌnd ]
( funds, funding, funded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Funds are amounts of money that are available to be spent, especially money that is given to an organization or person for a particular purpose.
The concert will raise funds for research into Aids.
...government funds.
N-PLURAL
see also fund-raising
2.
A fund is an amount of money that is collected or saved for a particular purpose.
...a scholarship fund for undergraduate engineering students.
N-COUNT : oft n N
see also trust fund
3.
When a person or organization funds something, they provide money for it.
The airport is being privately funded by a construction group.
...a new privately funded scheme.
= finance
VERB : V n , V-ed
• -funded
...government-funded institutions.
COMB in ADJ
4.
If you have a fund of something, you have a lot of it.
He is possessed of an extraordinary fund of energy.
N-COUNT : N of n