transcription, транскрипция: [ faʊndə(r) ]
( founders, foundering, foundered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The founder of an institution, organization, or building is the person who got it started or caused it to be built, often by providing the necessary money.
He was one of the founders of the university’s medical faculty.
N-COUNT : usu with poss
2.
If something such as a plan or project founders , it fails because of a particular point, difficulty, or problem.
The talks have foundered, largely because of the reluctance of some members of the government to do a deal with criminals.
= fail
VERB : V