Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A source of supply; a stock.
- noun A sum of money or other resources set aside for a specific purpose.
- noun Available money; ready cash.
- noun An organization established to administer and manage a sum of money.
- noun The stock of the British permanent national debt, considered as public securities. Used with the.
- transitive verb To provide funds for.
- transitive verb To convert (short-term government debt) into a long-term or floating debt with fixed interest payments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go; proceed.
- To collect and accumulate; store.
- To convert (a floating debt) into capital or stock, or into a more or less permanent debt, represented by bonds for definite sums, bearing interest at a fixed rate, and commonly redeemable within a fixed period of years.
- noun Bottom. See
in the fund , below. - noun A stock or accumulation of money or other forms of wealth devoted to or available for some purpose, as for the carrying on of some business or enterprise, or for the support and maintenance of an institution, a family, or a person: as, a sinking fund; the funds of a bank or corporation; the Widows' and Orphans' Fund, etc. A fund may be either active or passive.
- noun A store of anything to be drawn upon at pleasure; a stock or main source of supply; especially, an equipment of specific mental resources; a stock of knowledge or mental endowment of any kind: as, a fund of wisdom or good sense; a fund of anecdote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
- noun 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
- noun 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 . - noun An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; ; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.
- noun A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources.
- noun 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.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb To place in a fund, as money.
- transitive verb To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sum orsource ofmoney - noun An
organization managing such money - noun A money-management operation, such as a
mutual fund - noun A large
supply of something to be drawn upon. - verb transitive To
pay for.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability
- noun a supply of something available for future use
- verb place or store up in a fund for accumulation
- verb convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds
- verb invest money in government securities
- noun a reserve of money set aside for some purpose
- verb furnish money for
- verb provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest
- noun a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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I would like to know whether or not you would use the term fund-raiser in chief for President Bush like they did President Clinton.
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After the release of my report, DiNapoli held a press conference that announced they were going to reduce the earnings assumption to 7.5% -- and that we're not fully funded -- but that the fund is about 94% funded.
David A. Singer: Meet Harry Wilson -- Candidate for NYS Comptroller David A. Singer 2010
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The 'growing and aspirational' Indian middle class is a common term fund managers use to sign up investors.
Blocks to E-Commerce 2.0 Tanuj Khosla 2011
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But this fund is available only to those employed on one of the 33 deep-water rigs operating in May when the moratorium began, according to a fund spokesman.
Safety Net Eludes Some Oil Workers Ryan Dezember 2010
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The 'growing and aspirational' Indian middle class is a common term fund managers use to sign up investors.
Blocks to E-Commerce 2.0 Tanuj Khosla 2011
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After the release of my report, DiNapoli held a press conference that announced they were going to reduce the earnings assumption to 7.5% -- and that we're not fully funded -- but that the fund is about 94% funded.
David A. Singer: Meet Harry Wilson -- Candidate for NYS Comptroller David A. Singer 2010
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In fact, its a bit of a mystery why mutual funds are able to charge such fees at all considering the more 'managed' a fund is the more likely its return is expected to be inferior to the market return.
More on Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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After the release of my report, DiNapoli held a press conference that announced they were going to reduce the earnings assumption to 7.5% -- and that we're not fully funded -- but that the fund is about 94% funded.
David A. Singer: Meet Harry Wilson -- Candidate for NYS Comptroller David A. Singer 2010
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After the release of my report, DiNapoli held a press conference that announced they were going to reduce the earnings assumption to 7.5% -- and that we're not fully funded -- but that the fund is about 94% funded.
David A. Singer: Meet Harry Wilson -- Candidate for NYS Comptroller David A. Singer 2010
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The point of winning the fund is to be a representative, in spirit, word and deed, of American fandom to the folks in Europe.
FRANK FOR TAFF! frankwu 2009
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What Is an ETF? An exchange traded fund (ETF) is a type of security that tracks an index, sector, commodity, or other asset, but which can be purchased or sold on a stock exchange the same way a regular stock can. An ETF can be structured to track anything from the price of an individual commodity to a large and diverse collection of securities. ETFs can even be structured to track specific investment strategies. A well-known example is the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), which tracks the S&P 500 Index. ETFs can contain many types of investments, including stocks, commodities, bonds, or a mixture of investment types. An exchange traded fund is a marketable security, meaning it has an associated price that allows it to be easily bought and sold. Key Takeaways An exchange traded fund (ETF) is a basket of securities that trade on an exchange just like a stock does. ETF share prices fluctuate all day as the ETF is bought and sold; this is different from mutual funds that only trade once a day after the market closes. ETFs can contain all types of investments including stocks, commodities, or bonds; some offer U.S.-only holdings, while others are international. ETFs offer low expense ratios and fewer broker commissions than buying the stocks individually does. An ETF is called an exchange traded fund because it's traded on an exchange just like stocks are. The price of an ETF’s shares will change throughout the trading day as the shares are bought and sold on the market. This is unlike mutual funds, which are not traded on an exchange, and trade only once per day after the markets close. Additionally, ETFs tend to be more cost-effective and more liquid when compared to mutual funds.
Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) Full Bio 2022
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