(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."
Omnium
Definition:
(n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was not linked to Sutton’s departure in any way, or reported outside specialist media, but the head of the Manxman’s Dimension Data squad, Brian Smith, quit on Tuesday, and with his successor yet to be named it remains unclear what the fallout will be for Cavendish’s quest for the solitary men’s omnium place.
(2) He could be favoured by a change in format in the track omnium, now heavily weighted towards the points race, a discipline that suits Cavendish.
(3) The new man at the helm at British Cycling , Shane Sutton, has the Manxman on his shortlist of possible candidates, and told the Guardian: “He has the potential to win the omnium.
(4) Later on in the day the omnium started with the 800m handicap.
(5) On the same website, the trainer of the omnium specialist Bryan Coquard backed up the British response that their secret is due to the way they roll out the best equipment at the vital moment.
(6) Jordi Cuixart, the president of Omnium, a separatist group, told the crowd teeming with pro-independence flags that he had a message for the Spanish state.
(7) Ed Clancy meanwhile, also got off to the perfect start in the omnium, scoring maximum points in the first event, the flying 250m time trial, where he registered a personal best.
(8) So I'm just writing to thank the entire Guardian team for keeping me informed, entertained and (especially when it comes to the rules of the men's Omnium) educated, in the absence of the BBC coverage.
(9) As late as last September she was winning national titles on the track but she faced an obvious dilemma: positions in the team pursuit squad were hard to guarantee and Laura Trott was rapidly emerging as the team's strongest omnium rider.
(10) Cavendish has said he feels he could win the omnium, but is undecided .
(11) However, there was a non-championship open event called an "omnium" which included an 800m handicap on the same day, which I was allowed to ride.
(12) Alongside the sprint conundrum, there are the small matters of managing Sir Bradley Wiggins’s return to the track midway through next year – with the foundation of “Team Wiggo” to include the bulk of his fellow potential team pursuiters – and persuading Mark Cavendish or Ben Swift to take a brief break from professional road racing to ride the omnium.
(13) On Sunday Clancy will complete the omnium with the scratch race, individual pursuit and kilometre time trial; the latter two are as much his strong suit as the flying lap, meaning that he can look to move up the table, although the seven-point margin to the leader, Bryan Coquard of France, may prove too much.