The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fund \Fund\, n. [OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.]
An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
pl. The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.
An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.
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A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.
An inexhaustible fund of stories.
--Macaulay.Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.
Usage examples of "public funds".
Further, I will tolerate no swarms of itinerant monks, coming like flies on the waft of carrion, to feast and make merry on public funds.
Wilshire 5000 and several public funds comparable in size with his.
It's hard to explain how there is so little money for job training or decent housing or black business loans at the same time $2 million in public funds is being spent on a one-day visit by the pope.
The expenditure of public funds for continued operations was a burden on the economy.
The government's obligated under treaty to provide me with suitable quarters, but if things look too grim to justify using Jefferson's public funds to expand my quartersand just now, I'm afraid things don't look good at allI certainly have the means to build a nursery or two, myself.
The government's obligated under treaty to provide me with suitable quarters, but if things look too grim to justify using Jefferson's public funds to expand my quarters—.
The government's obligated under treaty to provide me with suitable quarters, but if things look too grim to justify using Jefferson's public funds to expand my quarters—.