MONETARY FUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monetary fund mean? 

• MONETARY FUND (noun)
  The noun MONETARY FUND has 1 sense:

1. a reserve of money set aside for some purpose

  Familiarity information: MONETARY FUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONETARY FUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reserve of money set aside for some purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

fund; monetary fund

Hypernyms ("monetary fund" is a kind of...):

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

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

mutual fund (the pooled money that is invested in assets)

revolving fund (a fund which, if borrowed or used, is intended to be replenished so it may be loaned or spent repeatedly)

sinking fund (a fund accumulated regularly in a separate account and used to redeem debt securities)

nest egg; savings (a fund of money put by as a reserve)

pension fund; superannuation fund (a fund reserved to pay workers' pensions when they retire from service)

war chest (a fund accumulated to finance a war (or a political campaign))

slush fund (a fund for buying votes or bribing public officials)

trust fund (a fund held in trust)

bank deposit; deposit (money deposited in a bank or some similar institution)

budget (a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose)

petty cash (a small fund of cash that a firm keeps for the payment of incidental expenses)