FUNDINGS
Noun
fundings
plural of funding
Source: Wiktionary
FUNDING
Fund"ing, a.
1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a
debt.
2. Investing in the public funds. Funding system, a system or scheme
of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the
interest or principal of a public debt.
FUND
Fund, n. Etym: [OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond
bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground,
foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.]
1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or
may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation
of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to
profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are
supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing
corporation, etc.
3. pl.
Definition: The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences
(stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is
paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.
4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as,
the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of
lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to
meet the expenses of some permanent object.
5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a
full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.
An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay.
Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested,
usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a
government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.
Fund, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Funded; p. pr. & vb. n. Funding.]
1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the
payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources
(as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest
of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.
2. To place in a fund, as money.
3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest;
as, to fund the floating debt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition