(v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, controversy and differing opinions about the disbursement of contraceptives remains.
(2) Everything has to move quickly because delaying the discussion and delaying the disbursement of the [next tranche] does not help the real economy.
(3) It also points to the huge benefits of small and rapid disbursements of funding: one doctor said that, had DfID provided him with the £7,500 he repeatedly asked for in June 2014 for eight isolation units, the money would have had the impact of “hundreds of thousands of pounds later on”.
(4) The OMP, due to run until 2014, has disbursed £3m to date.
(5) Less than half of the $5.1bn pledged to counter the epidemic has so far been disbursed.
(6) Only in this way could they assume active stewardship over the disbursement of their fortunes, applying the knowledge, expertise and temperament that gained them their piles toward the difficult task of giving them away.
(7) Hardly any development funding for implementation has been disbursed.” 68 million children likely to die by 2030 from preventable causes, report says Read more Dr David Richmond, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said the series offered a “wake-up call to governments worldwide to make faster progress in reducing the number of stillbirths, which wreak untold damage on families, care givers and communities”.
(8) Ciff has already disbursed $7.5m from its overall $20m commitment : $2m to support MSF’s work on the ground, $3m to the Red Cross, and $2.5m to support Unicef in Sierra Leone.
(9) The group, which does not speak Creole, relies on a young local fixer to select beneficiaries, disburse funds and keep records.
(10) There is often pressure to disburse aid rapidly and there are immense organisational challenges in suddenly expanding the scope and scale of programme delivery.
(11) Although this is not new money, the cash will now be disbursed with more urgency to kickstart infrastructure projects currently struggling for credit with the hope of galvanising private spending.
(12) Speaking after the meeting in Brussels, he said it was too early to make a decision on unlocking the next tranche of Greece’s €86bn (£73bn) bailout, but he hoped agreement on reforms would make a disbursal of funds possible.
(13) Mrs Ecclestone received disbursements from the trusts, in other words she also has a personal asset.
(14) The system of a government official inspecting toilets before disbursing money doesn’t work because toilet users do not feel ownership, he argues.
(15) Records suggest Inhofe’s 2014 campaign was a funding priority for the BP PAC, ranking as one of the top recipients of committee funds when compared with disbursements to other serving senators.
(16) The report adds: "Finance for adaptation is an obligation – it must be separate and additional to aid commitments, in the form of grants not loans, and disbursed through equitable governance mechanisms."
(17) Aides say the conservative leader will impress upon Barroso for rescue funds to be released as soon as possible saying “with the budget vote Greece has done its bit, now it is up to Europe to do the same.” The Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras, who is in Brussels, says despite disagreement between the EU and IMF over how to resolve Greece’s debt sustainability, disbursement of the long-delayed €31.5bn aid package is now a “done deal.” The technocrat said he believed the entire amount would be “deposited in an account at the Bank of Greece by the end of November or early December” once individual member state parliaments had voted on the package.
(18) The average payment of £700 plus disbursements has not increased since 2003, and less than half of those who apply are successful anyway."
(19) He recommends a punitive or even 100% tax, and a low or zero tax on their disbursement.
(20) Britain is yet to make a decision on whether to disburse the remaining £8m, which is due in December.
Fund
Definition:
(n.) An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.
(v. t.) To place in a fund, as money.
(v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(3) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(4) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(5) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(6) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
(7) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
(8) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(9) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(10) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(11) Similarly, I would like to see fully funded and resourced public services.
(12) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
(13) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(14) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(15) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
(16) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(17) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
(18) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(19) We know that from the rapid take up of crowd funded renewables investors are actively looking for a more secure option.
(20) "If necessary we will promote and encourage new laws which require future WHO funding to be provided only if the organisation accepts that all reports must be supported by the preponderance of science."