funded

1. 1
   adjective

   Having received money to pay for something, or supported financially.

   The funded research continued without interruption for two years.

   Every funded applicant received a stipend and laboratory access.

   Similarsubsidized, backed

   Oppositeunfunded

   Note

   As an adjective it can be graded (more funded, most funded), and it often arrives with an adverb that judges the amount. Byford's 2022 warning, for instance, is that London needs a properly funded transport network. Before a noun it describes a state. After was it usually reads as the passive verb, with a funder at least implied.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of fund.

   The government funded the bridge repairs after the flood.

   Investors funded the startup through its first three years.

   Note

   One spelling does double duty here. It serves as the simple past (the government funded the research) and as the participle after have or be (the research was funded). Every verb sense of fund is transitive, so funded always has something being paid for, either an object or a passive subject. The verb's older meaning, turning a debt into stock charged with interest, survives in the bond-market adjective.

3. 3
   adjective

   Invested in public funds; existing as long-term bonds rather than short-term debt that must be repaid quickly.

   The treasury converted its short-term loans into funded debt held as long-term bonds.

   Analysts prefer funded obligations because their repayment is spread across many years.

   Oppositefloating, unfunded

   Note

   Finance keeps an older meaning alive. Funded debt has been turned into long-term, interest-bearing bonds, typically government securities, rather than left as floating obligations due for quick repayment. Do not confuse it with the everyday "paid for" sense. Here the word describes the form a debt takes, not the money behind a project.

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