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/fˈəndɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Fund v. t. (past & past part. funded; pres. part. funding)

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.

To place in a fund, as money.

To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

adjective

Funding adj.

Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

Investing in the public funds.

Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt.

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Etymology of 'Funding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Funding" Quotes from Famous Books

... national, with the absurd attempt unduly to elevate the one by unjustly depreciating the other, is the work of the League alone, which, having originated the senseless cry of "class interests," would seem doggedly determined to establish the fact, per fas et nefas, as the means of funding and perpetuating ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 • Various

... benefits substantially from financial assistance from the US. The rate of funding has declined as locally generated government revenues have grown. An agreement for the years 1986 to 1992 entitled the islands to $228 million for capital development, government operations, and special programs. Since 1992, funding has been extended one year at a time. The commonwealth ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.