fund (funds plural & 3rd person present) (funding present participle) (funded past tense & past participle )
1 n-plural 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.
2 n-count A fund is an amount of money that is collected or saved for a particular purpose.
...a scholarship fund for undergraduate engineering students.
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trust fund
3 verb When a person or organization funds something, they provide money for it.
(=finance)
The airport is being privately funded by a construction group. V n
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-funded comb in adj
...government-funded institutions.
4 n-count If you have a fund of something, you have a lot of it.
He is possessed of an extraordinary fund of energy.