Fund

(noun.) a reserve of money set aside for some purpose.

(verb.) furnish money for; 'The government funds basic research in many areas'.

(verb.) accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; 'fund a medical care plan'.

(verb.) invest money in government securities.

(verb.) provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest.

(verb.) place or store up in a fund for accumulation.

(verb.) convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds.

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• She should try to get additional subscriptions, and to form a fund; but first she must consult the clergy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Hawley has been having him to dinner lately: there's a fund of talent in Bowyer. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The perpetual allotment and destination of this fund, indeed, is not always guarded by any positive law, by any trust-right or deed of mortmain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Then our regimental fund had run down and some of the musicians in the band had been without their extra pay for a number of months. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• In this you are right; but as to the restored tranquillity of the neighbourhood, as to the permanent good effect of your charitable fund, I doubt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There are funds in hand at present. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In 1855 the work was discontinued at the height of 152 feet, from lack of funds. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It will have been gathered that the funds for this great experiment were furnished largely by Edison. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or perhaps destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Mostly these men have worked against great discouragement, with insufficient funds and small help or support from the mass of mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was no market for his wares, and after months of actual destitution he pawned the model of his sewing-machine and even his patent papers in order to secure funds to pay his passage home. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Lord Ravensworth, the principal partner, formed a favorable opinion of Stephenson’s plans, and agreed to supply him with the funds necessary to build a locomotive. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In 1764, therefore, the public debt of Great Britain, funded and unfunded together, amounted, according to this author, to ?139,561,807:2:4. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Betsey funded her property for some time, and then, by the advice of her man of business, laid it out on landed security. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• On the 5th of January 1763, at the conclusion of the peace, the funded debt amounted debt to ?122,603,336:8:2?. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In 1755, before the breaking out of the late war, the funded debt of Great Britain amounted to ?72,289,675. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On the 31st of December 1697, the public debts of Great Britain, funded and unfunded, amounted to ?21,515,742:13:8?. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On the 5th of January 1775, the funded debt of Great Britain amounted to ?124,996,086, 1:6?d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When money was raised in the one way, it was said to be raised by anticipation; when in the other, by perpetual funding, or, more shortly, by funding. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is only during the continuance of war, however, that the system of funding has this advantage over the other system. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The practice of funding has gradually enfeebled every state which has adopted it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The ability of private people to accumulate, though less during the war, would have been greater during the peace, than under the system of funding. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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