• IPA: /ˈfʌnd/

fund (plural funds)

1. A sum or source of money.

   the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

   a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students

2. An organization managing such money.
3. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.

   Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.

4. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.

   He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.

   • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Goldsmith,_Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver]”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

     an inexhaustible fund of stories

• French: fonds
• German: Kapital, Fonds
• Italian: fondo
• Portuguese: fundo, capital
• Russian: фонд
• Spanish: fondo, capital

• Portuguese: fundação
• Russian: фонд

• German: anlegen
• Spanish: fondo

fund (funds, present participle funding; past and past participle funded)

1. (transitive) To pay for.

   He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.

2. (transitive) To place (money) in a fund.
3. (transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.

• French: financer
• German: finanzieren
• Italian: finanziare
• Portuguese: financiar
• Spanish: financiar, sufragar, patrocinar