Fund vs Association - What's the difference?
fund | association |
A sum or source of money.
An organization managing such money.
A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
* Macaulay
The act of associating.
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jan Sapp)
, title=Race Finished
, volume=100, issue=2, page=164
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
As nouns the difference between fund and association
is that fund is discovery, finding, find (something that is found) while association is the act of associating.fund
English
(wikipedia fund)Noun
(en noun)- the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
- a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
- Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
- He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
- an inexhaustible fund of stories
Derived terms
(derived terms) * balanced fund * bond fund * closed-end fund * equity fund * feeder fund * fund of funds * growth fund * hedge fund * income fund * index fund * load fund * master fund * mutual fund * open-end fund * no-load fund * pension fund * stock fund * trust fundassociation
English
(wikipedia association)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations —culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}