Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive chiefly US English) To cancel funding for.
Usage examples of "defund".
America cries out for a strong leader to arise, disband, defund, and depose these lawyer-gangsters before we all end up in a new, Rwanda-like reality.
Following this remarkably positive discovery by the Medical College of Virginia, orders were immediately handed down by the DE and the National Institute of Health to defund all furter cannabis/tumor research and reporting!
The dullards at the National Endowment for the Arts, a sister "sleeper" government agency that should be defunded, agreed that "Piss Christ" was art and wrote a check for 15,000 of your tax dollars to pay this derelict for his efforts.
A town so morally bankrupt, we underwrite sex change operations with taxpayer dollars for city employees but defund the Boy Scouts.
No one wants to hear about what Wycinski’s research really means, and anybody who talks too loud about it, or tries to apply the findings in research of their own, is either defunded overnight or ridiculed, which in the end comes to the same thing.
No one wants to hear about what Wycinski's research really means, and anybody who talks too loud about it, or tries to apply the findings in research of their own is either defunded overnight or ridiculed, which in the end comes to the same thing.
A South African military program that actually employed a few of the original PEREGRINE designers—they were working with remote aviation, pilots using virtual control modules—but the project was defunded years ago.
A South African military program that actually employed a few of the original PEREGRINE designers-they were working with remote aviation, pilots using virtual control modules-but the project was defunded years ago.
NASA program, but never went into space due to the defunding of the program.
Setting known terrorists free because we didn’t have evidence we could use in open court, defunding various CIA special ops people, you name it—he was gutting our whole effort.