fund
verb/fʌnd/
/fʌnd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they fund | /fʌnd/ /fʌnd/ |
| he / she / it funds | /fʌndz/ /fʌndz/ |
| past simple funded | /ˈfʌndɪd/ /ˈfʌndɪd/ |
| past participle funded | /ˈfʌndɪd/ /ˈfʌndɪd/ |
| -ing form funding | /ˈfʌndɪŋ/ /ˈfʌndɪŋ/ |
- fund something to provide money for something, usually something official
- Who is funding this research?
- to fund a project/study/scheme
- It's a government-funded programme for young offenders.
- publicly funded healthcare
- a federally funded housing project
- The museum is privately funded.
- The festival is funded by a grant from the Arts Council.
- It is important that these training placements are fully funded.
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessb2, Social issuesb2, Moneyb2- This money will help to fund administration costs.
- She used the stolen money to fund her extravagant lifestyle.
- Drug companies and the government will jointly fund the necessary medical research.
- Infrastructure projects are centrally funded.
- The venture is funded entirely by its board of directors.
- a new, fully funded training scheme
- a plan jointly funded by central and local government
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- largely
- mainly
- primarily
- …
- be used to
- help (to)
- agree to
- …
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin fundus ‘bottom, piece of landed property’. The earliest sense was ‘the bottom or lowest part’, later ‘foundation or basis’; the association with money has perhaps arisen from the idea of landed property being a source of wealth.Want to learn more?
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