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fund verb

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Definition

to provide the money to pay for an event, activity or organization
The company has agreed to fund my trip to Australia.
The new college is being privately funded (= money for it is not being provided from taxes).

(Definition of fund verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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