fund
noun /fʌnd/Definition
C1 [C] an amount of money saved, collected, or provided for a particular purpose: a pension/trust fund The hospital has set up a special fund to buy new equipment. Contributions are being sought for the disaster fund.Trusts and fundsGeneral words for amounts of moneyLarge amounts of moneySmall amounts of money funds C1 [plural] › money needed or available to spend on something: Following the repairs to the roof, church funds are now seriously depleted. The president has agreed to allocate further funds to develop the new submarine.informal I'd love to come on holiday with you, but I'm a bit short of/low on funds (= I have little money) at the moment.Savings, interest and capitalGeneral words for amounts of moneyLarge amounts of moneySmall amounts of money a fund of sth › a lot of something: She has a fund of knowledge on the subject.Masses and large amounts of things
(Definition of fund noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- accumulation noun
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog noun
- battery noun (LARGE NUMBER)
- boatload noun
- bucketload noun
- clot noun (PIECE)
- deluge noun
- hump noun (LUMP)
- plethora noun
- predominance noun
- preponderance noun
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