fund

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "An inexhaustible fund of stories."  [1913 Webster]

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.

fund, v. t. 

•  To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.  [1913 Webster]
•  To place in a fund, as money.  [1913 Webster]
•  To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fund, n. & v.
--n.
1 a permanent stock of something ready to be drawn upon (a fund of knowledge; a fund of tenderness).
2 a stock of money, esp. one set apart for a purpose.
3 (in pl.) money resources.
4 (in pl.; prec. by the) Brit. the stock of the National Debt (as a mode of investment).
--v.tr.
1 provide with money.
2 convert (a floating debt) into a more or less permanent debt at fixed interest.
3 put into a fund.

Idiom

fund-raiser a person who seeks financial support for a cause, enterprise, etc. fund-raising the seeking of financial support. in funds colloq. having money to spend.

Etymology

L fundus bottom, piece of land

THESAURUS

fund

Festschrift, Swiss bank account, accommodate, acknowledge, afford, afford support, aid, ana, angel, anthology, aquarium, assets, assist, available means, back, balance, bank account, bankroll, bear, bear out, bear the expense, bear up, body, bolster, bolster up, bottom dollar, bread, bucks, budget, buttress, cache, capital, capital gains distribution, capital goods, capital structure, capitalization, capitalize, cash reserves, checking account, chip in, chrestomathy, circulating capital, clothe, collectanea, collection, command of money, compilation, contribute, corpus, crutch, data, defray, defray expenses, donate, dough, endow, endowment, equity capital, exchequer, fill, fill up, finance, finances, find, fixed capital, floating capital, florilegium, foot the bill, funds, furnish, give, give support, go Dutch, grant, green, grist, grubstake, hard cash, help, hold up, holdings, honor a bill, inventory, invest, keep, kitty, lend support, library, life savings, liquid assets, lolly, loot, lucre, maintain, make available, make provision for, means, menagerie, mine, money, moneyed capital, moneys, museum, nest egg, patronize, pay for, pay the bill, pay the bills, pay the piper, pecuniary resources, pelf, pension, pension off, pocket, pool, prepare, present, principal, prop, prop up, property, provide, provide for, purse, raw data, ready, ready money, recruit, redeem, refinance, reinforce, replenish, repository, reserve, reserves, reservoir, resource, resources, savings, savings account, scratch, set up, shore, shore up, sponsor, stake, stand the costs, stock, store, subsidize, substance, subvention, subventionize, supply, support, sustain, treasure, undergird, unregistered bank account, upbear, uphold, upkeep, venture capital, wealth, wherewithal, working capital, yield, zoo

ROGET THESAURUS

fund

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

VB store, put by, lay by, set by, stow away, set apart, lay apart, store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up, bank, cache, accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save, reserve, keep back, hold back, husband, husband one's resources, deposit, stow, stack, load, harvest, heap, collect, lay in store Adj, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve.