# funds

Pronunciation: say "FUNDZ" /fʌndz/

## Noun

1. Money or other financial resources available to be spent for a particular purpose.
   - Simple: Money that is ready to be used for a particular purpose.
   - _The committee allocated funds for the new library wing._
   - _Investors withdrew their funds as soon as the market dropped._
2. Plural of fund. — plural of fund
   - Simple: Plural of fund. Use this form when talking about more than one fund.
   - _Mutual funds pool money from many investors._
   - _The two charity funds merged last year._

## Verb

3. Third-person singular simple present indicative of fund. — third-person singular simple present indicative of fund
   - Simple: Third-person singular present of fund. Use it with he, she, or it.
   - _A small grant funds the entire program each year._
   - _The foundation funds scholarships for first-generation students._

## Other meanings

- (noun) Permanent debts owed by a government on which it pays regular interest to holders.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/funds (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).