Definition: 1. Money that is available to be spent. 2. An amount of money that has been saved or has been made available for a particular purpose. 3. A supply of something available for future use.
Use 'fund' in a sentence:
1. The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat.
2. They were planning to solicit funds from a number of organizations.
3. The money will be placed in a trust fund for her daughter.
4. Martin Sommerkorn runs the Arctic program for the environmental charity—the World Wildlife Fund.
5. They do not fund peer-reviewed research.
6. Regulars at his local bar have set up a fund to help out.
7. UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, will work with Family Health International.
8. The government announced the setting up of a special fund.
9. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity.
10. The trustees of your pension fund decide which fund manager will invest some or all of your future income.
11. He's accused of misusing $17.5 million from a secret government slush fund.
12. What is the current status of our application for funds?
13. The response from the government was cool, however, and Shirase struggled to raise fund.
14. Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.
15. A large hedge fund caused the financial system to wobble in 1998, and the same could happen again.
16. It's the same old story of a badly managed project with inadequate funding.
17. An injection of cash is needed to fund some of these projects.
18. The governor's campaign fund could be pared down to $500.
19. An appeal fund was launched at the instigation of the President.
20. The insurance fund would inject $750 into the banks.
21. The money will be invested in managed funds.
22. In 1944, Congress passed a bill to upgrade the system, but did not fund the plan right away.
23. Thank you for contributing generously to the scholarship fund.
24. All of which begs the question as to who will fund the project.
25. The treasurer had run off with the club's funds.
26. For me, in a house with two children and my wife, I have a six-month emergency fund.
27. The pension funds are administered by commercial banks.
28. Ryan's campaign fund allegedly scammed the state out of a million dollars.
29. He plans to recapitalize the insurance fund.
30. A fund will be set up for the dead men's families.
31. She's trying to rustle up some funding for the project.
32. Under the terms of the agreement, their funding of the project will continue until 2010.
33. She set up an educational fund in memory of her mother.
34. The university has many externally funded research projects.
35. The fund has been used largely to finance the construction of federal prisons.
36. I'm short of funds at the moment ─ can I pay you back next week?
37. The Environmental Defense Fund has been given $800,000 in federal grants to promote smart growth.
38. Industrial sponsorship is a supplement to government funding.
39. The hospital is trying to raise funds for a new kidney machine.
40. Today, the European Union is creating a $580 billion fund to ward off sovereign collapse.
41. Fund managers are poorly placed to monitor companies.
42. We contributed £ 5 000 to the earthquake fund.
43. He was found guilty of embezzling$ 150 000 of public funds.
44. The fund is voluntarily administered.
45. Could we get back to the question of funding?
46. Work has temporarily come to a stop while the funding is reviewed.
47. The school funds a set number of free places.
48. The government has promised to put a ring fence around funding for education.
49. The project had hung fire for several years for lack of funds.
50. The project has been cancelled because of lack of funds.
51. Research has been constrained by a lack of funds.
52. The new building programme will go ahead as soon as the government releases the funds.
53. Such projects are not financially viable without government funding.
54. The project had to be abandoned due to a lack of government funding.
55. Under the new scheme only successful schools will be given extra funding.
56. The course is part funded by the European Commission.
57. They could relax safe in the knowledge that they had the funding for the project.
58. There have been large cuts in government funding for scientific research.
59. Most students face the problem of funding themselves while they are studying.
