Word Meanings - FUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. 4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund

Additional info about word: FUND

The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. 4. 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. 5. 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. (more info) bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, 1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. 2. 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. 3. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUND)

• Repay
• Remunerate
• reimburse
• recompense
• reward
• retaliate
• requite
• fund
• Store
• Treasure
• treasury
• garner
• provision
• supply
• accumulation
• hoard
• abundance
• shop
• place of business
• ammunition
• stock

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FUND)

• Punish
• misrequite
• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste
• betray

Related words: (words related to FUND)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• REIMBURSEMENT
  The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.