Fund vs Coffer - What's the difference?
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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
A strongbox: a strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
(architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome; a caisson.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.135:
A cofferdam.
A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
To put money or valuables in a coffer
To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.
Fund is a related term of coffer.
As nouns the difference between fund and coffer
is that fund is discovery, finding, find (something that is found) while coffer is a strongbox: a strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.As a verb coffer is
to put money or valuables in a coffer.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 fundcoffer
English
Alternative forms
* copher (obsolete) * cophre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Prolapsed and waterstained ceiling, the sagging coffers .
- He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers .
- Hold, here is half my coffer .