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# fund

«fund» in Mova's school dictionary: **An amount of money saved or collected for a special purpose** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fund, funds); verb (fund, funds, funded, funding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An amount of money saved or collected for a special purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#m1)

2) (plural, funds) Money that is available to spend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#m2)

3) A large supply of something: «a fund of stories». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#m3)

4) (verb) To give the money that pays for something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school and everyday life it appears in fundraising: «the school fund», «raise funds for the roof». In adult life: savings fund, pension fund. In maths problems it may be the total money collected. Phrases: raise funds, school fund, short of funds, a fund of jokes, fund a project.

### examples

- We are raising funds for a new playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#x1)
- The class put the money from the bake sale into the trip fund. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#x2)
- The charity is short of funds this winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#x3)
- Grandpa has a fund of funny stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#x4)
- The council will fund the new swimming pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#x5)
- Our school fund paid for the visiting author. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/#x6)

### note

Related: funding, fundraising, fundraiser. «Funds» with s means money in general. In word problems, «the fund had £200 and they added £50» means 200 + 50.

### In the corpora

- [In Britain a law of 1850 let towns fund free public libraries, and Andrew Carnegie paid for about 2,500 library buildings around 1900.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/18/)
- [An emergency fund is money kept for unexpected costs; a £250 repair from a £500 pot leaves £250.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/6/)
- ["A rainy day" means a time of trouble, so a rainy day fund is money saved for bad surprises.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fund» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fund/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.