FUNDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does funding mean? 

• FUNDING (noun)
  The noun FUNDING has 2 senses:

1. financial resources provided to make some project possible

2. the act of financing

  Familiarity information: FUNDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Financial resources provided to make some project possible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

backing; financial backing; financial support; funding; support

Context example:

the foundation provided support for the experiment

Hypernyms ("funding" is a kind of...):

resource (available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed)

Derivation:

fund (furnish money for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of financing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

financing; funding

Hypernyms ("funding" is a kind of...):

finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)

Derivation:

fund (furnish money for)

 Context examples 

A funding category that should include all grants having to do with herpes research except those having to do with genital infection.

(Herpes, Other Than Genital, NCI Thesaurus)

A funding category that should include all grants having to do with herpes research.

(Herpes, Total, NCI Thesaurus)

A funding project supporting research towards measuring the quality of cancer care in the United States.

(Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

It encourages extraordinary young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by funding initial postdoctoral Fellowship Awards, Scholar Awards and Clinical Investigator Awards.

(Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the FY2004 Defense Appropriations Act, DOD is responsible for funding of several cancer research programs such as studies on breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer, leukemia, and myeloproliferative disease.

(Department of Defense, NCI Thesaurus)

The specific subdivisions in a classification scheme of funding activities.

(Funding Category, NCI Thesaurus)

A funding category for studies concerned with cell growth or cell differentiation.

(Differentiation and Growth, NCI Thesaurus)

The patient will return home but personal health maintenance will be administered and monitored by a member of a healthcare organization that is eligible to receive Medicare funding.

(Home Under Care of Organized Home Health Service Organization in Anticipation of Covered Skilled Care, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An institute within the National Institutes of Health with the mission to reduce the burden of neurological disease by conducting and funding research on brain and nervous system disorders.

(National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NCI Thesaurus)

The patient will be admitted into a medical center which is eligible to receive funding from Medicaid but not Medicare.

(Nursing Facility Certified Under Medicaid but Not Certified Under Medicare, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)