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fund1 /fʌnd/ ●●○ W3 AWL noun  
1  MONEY[countableC] an amount of money that is collected and kept for a particular purpose 基金；专款
 The fund was set up to try to save the cathedral.
设立基金以挽救大教堂。
pension/investment/memorial etc fund 养老/投资/纪念等基金
→ funding, trust fund
2  funds [plural] money that an organization needs or has 〔机构需要或拥有的〕资金
 A sale is being held to raise funds for the school.
正在举行拍卖为该校筹集资金。
government/public funds
 claims that ministers had misused public funds
部长们滥用公共资金的说法
 The park remains unfinished due to lack of funds.
由于缺乏资金，公园一直没有完工。
 The Museum is so short of funds (=has so little money) it may have to sell the painting.
博物馆资金极其紧缺，可能不得不卖掉那幅藏画。
Examples from the Corpus
funds• We didn't have enough funds to complete the project.• To qualify for funds, organizations must be non-profit companies.
3  SSO[singular] an organization that collects money, for example to help people who are ill, old etc 基金会 → charity
 We give to the Children’s Fund every Christmas.
我们每年圣诞节向儿童基金会捐款。
4  a fund of something a large supply of something 大量的某物
 He had a fund of stories about his boyhood.
他有说不完的童年故事。
Examples from the Corpus
a fund of something• All the same, signalmen can be a fund of unexpected tales and it is always interesting to hear their stories.• As with any creative work there can be no prescription that will guarantee a fund of good teaching ideas.• He set out to be amusing; he had a fund of anecdotes, some about people Eloise knew well.• Ronny has a bottomless fund of anecdotes.• Elderly citizens have a fund of experience and knowledge.• He is a fund of ideas on children's education.• I myself would be proud to donate to a fund of this kind, as I think a lot of people would.• I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence.• We are faced with a fund of conflicting speculations.
5. in funds formalMONEY having enough money to do something 有足够的钱
Examples from the Corpus
in funds• That contract now covers about $ 93 billion in funds.• It seems that many buildings will soon become unsafe unless there is a big increase in funds available for much-needed work.• The joint venture would manage a total of $ 150 million in funds.• Hatton had been ill and at that time apparently not in funds.• Prudential manages more than 76 billion pounds in funds.• They're invariably punctual, because one of their men works there and has been put in funds in advance.• Your premiums buy units in funds invested on the stock market.• One solution, of course, providing he was in funds, was to employ a model.
n COLLOCATIONS
verbs
set up/establish a fund
They have set up a fund to build a memorial to all those who died.
manage/administer a fund
The fund is managed by an investment company.
launch a fund (=start it)
They plan to launch an investment fund by raising $40m from investors.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + fund
a trust fund (=money that belongs to one person, but is controlled by another)
Proceeds from the sale of the house will go into a trust fund for the children.
a pension fund (=for paying pensions)
the country’s largest private pension fund
an investment fund (=for buying shares, property, etc in order to make a profit)
The building is currently owned by Argo Partnership, a Toronto-based investment fund.
a campaign fund (=for helping a political party or person to get elected)
These social events help to raise campaign funds.
a memorial fund (=for remembering the life of someone who has died)
The work is being paid for out of the memorial fund launched after Morris’s death.
a benevolent/charitable fund (=for giving help to poor people)
He contributed the sum of £1,500 to the benevolent fund.
an appeal fund (=money collected to help people who are in a very bad situation)
The appeal fund has now reached £65,000.
Examples from the Corpus
fund• The government agreed to create a fund to help develop rural areas.• They used this money to set up a fund for the refugees.• Supporters have set up an appeal fund to help Peter fight the case.• Tell us, Gillian, how much do you have in the appeal fund now?• A total of $5,800 in church funds has been used to provide assistance to local people.• Finally, we have noted that other constitutional provisions may provide an independent bar to the conditional grant of federal funds.• The same is true, to some extent, with hedge funds.• The Government have given themselves a permanent contributions holiday by no longer making an Exchequer contribution to the national insurance fund.• The big mutual fund suffered late last year from the same mistakes that hurt the hedge fund.• More than 100 offshore funds pay an income in sterling.• The hand-sewn quilts will be sold at a Christmas Craft Fair to raise funds for the arts project.• The event was held to raise funds to promote AIDS awareness among young gays.• The event was to raise funds for the coordinated campaign of California Democrats.• All the money raised will be donated to the Cancer Research Fund.• New York's Inner City Scholarship Fund pays the college fees of students from poorer families.• The New Children's Shelter Fund received a grant of $80,000.• He is on trial for accepting kickbacks from business moguls to build his slush fund.• There's a special fund you can apply to, that pays for blind students to go to university.• That is the private opportunity cost of the funds tied up in the project.• A considerable part of these funds was passed on as dinar loans to domestic enterprises.• If I'm successful in raising over £500, those funds will go to the Bible School.
fund2 ●●○ W3 AWL verb [transitiveT]  
PROVIDEto provide money for an activity, organization, event etc 为〔活动、组织、事件等〕提供资金，资助
 The project is jointly funded by several local companies.
这个项目由几家当地公司联合出资。
 government-funded research
政府资助的研究
Examples from the Corpus
fund• Research into cancer has been well funded.• a charity funded by private donations• Medicaid is a state-administered program for low-income recipients that is substantially funded by the federal government.• The museum is funded by the local authority.• They suspect that the rebels are being funded by Western governments.• The women's shelter is funded entirely by the church.• The state should fund the arts for the benefit of us all.• Both schools and industry will be involved in funding the new training projects.
From Longman Business Dictionary
fundfund1 /fʌnd/ noun
1[countableC]FINANCE an amount of money that is obtained and used for a particular purpose
They agreed to set up (=start) a $240 million international fund through which industrialized nations can help developing countries.
→ accumulated fund → bank guarantee fund → contingency fund → deposit protection fund → depreciation fund → discretionary fund → guarantee fund → life fund → pension fund → provident fund → reserve fund → revolving fund → sinking fund → slush fund → strike fund → trust fund
2[countableC]FINANCEORGANIZATIONS an organization that is responsible for obtaining and spending money for a particular purpose
Thanks to the European Development Fund, a fourth railway station will re-open in Wales this October.
The fund invests in money market deposits with a range of banks and financial institutions.
the World Wildlife Fund
3funds [plural]ECONOMICSFINANCE money that a person or organization has available
With the additional bank financing, we’ll have sufficient funds to pay our suppliers.
→ Federal funds → public funds → shareholders' funds → state funds
4in funds having money, or enough money for a particular purpose
He promised to send repayment when he was next in funds.
A new spending bill was needed to keep the government in funds (=make sure the government has enough money).
5be short of funds/run out of funds to have little or no money
The government is short of funds and needs additional revenue quickly.
The company ran out of funds, leaving gross debts of £900 million.
6funds [plural]FINANCEBANKING used to talk about borrowing for different periods of time
→ long-term funds → short-term funds
7 (also investment fund) [countableC]FINANCE a company whose activity is putting money from investors into a particular type of investment or a range of investments, or an amount of money invested in this way
The fund will invest primarily in Asian companies.
The GT Growth Fund is the largest investment fund operating in Chile.
→ authorized fund → balanced fund → bond fund → broker-dealer fund → closed-end fund → commodity fund → dual-purpose fund → equity fund → fund of funds → general-purpose fund → go-go fund → growth fund → hedge fund → high-yield fund → income fund → index fund → institutional fund → managed fund → money fund → mutual fund → no-load fund → open-end fund → performance fund → stock fund → tracker fund → umbrella fund → value fund → vulture fund
fundfund2 verb [transitiveT]FINANCE
1to provide money for an activity, organization, or event
This year’s profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5 billion programme of investment over the next five years.
The chairwoman remains relatively unworried about the group’s ability to fund its expansion.
→ see also overfunded, underfunded
2to change the arrangements for paying a debt, so that you have more time to pay
Proposals to fund part of the state debt faced stubborn resistance.
Origin fund1
(1600-1700) Latin fundus “bottom, piece of land”
fund1 noun →n COLLOCATIONS1fund2 verb
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