FUNDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does funds mean? 

• FUNDS (noun)
  The noun FUNDS has 1 sense:

1. assets in the form of money

  Familiarity information: FUNDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assets in the form of money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource

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

assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "funds"):

bank (the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games)

purse strings (financial resources or support)

bankroll; roll (a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.))

pocket (a supply of money)

Medicaid funds (public funds used to pay for Medicaid)

exchequer; treasury (the funds of a government or institution or individual)

money supply (the total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banks)

escrow funds (funds held in escrow)

matching funds (funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources)

 Context examples 

There are no restrictions on use of private funds.

(Institution Supplementation, NCI Thesaurus)

Healthcare bills are paid from federal, state and local tax funds.

(Medicaid, NCI Thesaurus)

Government funds available to support military operations.

(Military Funding, NCI Thesaurus)

All these heavenly bodies will be in the constellation of Capricorn, suggesting that you may be overseeing a large budget and appropriating funds.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Provides funds for scientific projects and public health programs.

(Health Resources and Services Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

The funds help the cancer centers improve the way they are run and develop new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer.

(Cancer Center Support Grant, NCI Dictionary)

CTRF stimulates and funds research relevant to cancer therapy (e.g., new agents, immunotherapy, biological response modifiers, gene therapy), clinical nutrition, quality of life and cancer integrative medicine.

(Cancer Treatment Research Foundation, NCI Thesaurus)

OASH provides funds for research and public health programs.

(Office of Assistant Secretary of Health, NCI Thesaurus)

Your fortune is vested in the English funds; Briggs has the will and the necessary documents.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They have not shown any sign of being in funds.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)