fundとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌnd/
  • 韻: -ʌnd

名詞

fund (複数形 funds)

1. A sum or source of money.

   the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

   a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students

2. An organization managing such money.
3. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.

   Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.

4. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.

   He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.

   • 1856 February​, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:

     an inexhaustible fund of stories

派生語

動詞

fund (三人称単数 現在形 funds, 現在分詞 funding, 過去形および過去分詞形 funded)

1. (transitive) To pay for.

   He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.

2. (transitive) To place (money) in a fund.
3. (transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.