Synonyms for funding


Grammar : Noun
Spell : fuhnd
Phonetic Transcription : fÊŒnd


Définition of funding

Origin :
  • 1660s, from French fond "a bottom, floor, ground" (12c.), also "a merchant's basic stock or capital," from Latin fundus "bottom, foundation, piece of land," from PIE root *bhudh- "bottom, base" (cf. Sanskrit budhnah, Greek pythmen "foundation, bottom," Old English botm "lowest part;" see bottom (n.)). Funds "money at one's disposal" is from 1728. Fund-raiser (also fundraiser) first attested 1957.
  • noun capital
Example sentences :
  • On the 18th the plan was adopted for funding the public debts.
  • Extract from : « The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume XII » by Various
  • But why, Mr. Chairman, should we hasten on this business of funding?
  • Extract from : « Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. I (of 16) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • We may gather all the roses of the funding system without its thorns.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Albert Gallatin » by Henry Adams
  • Hamilton's funding system was a scheme to corrupt the country.
  • Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 » by Various
  • For himself, he upheld the funding system, that is, the plan of shelving the debt upon the future.
  • Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
  • Confederate money still depreciates, in spite of the funding act.
  • Extract from : « A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital » by John Beauchamp Jones
  • Great crowds are funding their Treasury notes to-day; but prices of provisions are not diminished.
  • Extract from : « A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital » by John Beauchamp Jones
  • A great crowd of people have been at the Treasury building; all day, funding Treasury notes.
  • Extract from : « A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital » by John Beauchamp Jones
  • To-day the clerks were paid in the new currency; but I see no abatement of prices from the scarcity of money, caused by funding.
  • Extract from : « A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital » by John Beauchamp Jones
  • This act was immediately followed by an amendment to the bill then depending before the Senate for funding the debt of the Union.
  • Extract from : « Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 » by John Frederick Schroeder

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