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 →

2) (plural, funds) Money that is available to spend. tree →

3) A large supply of something: «a fund of stories». tree →

4) (verb) To give the money that pays for something. tree →

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 →
• The class put the money from the bake sale into the trip fund. tree →
• The charity is short of funds this winter. tree →
• Grandpa has a fund of funny stories. tree →
• The council will fund the new swimming pool. tree →
• Our school fund paid for the visiting author. tree →

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.
• An emergency fund is money kept for unexpected costs; a £250 repair from a £500 pot leaves £250.
• "A rainy day" means a time of trouble, so a rainy day fund is money saved for bad surprises.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fund» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.