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Fund vs Defund - What's the difference?

fund | defund |

As verbs the difference between fund and defund

is that fund is to pay for while defund is to cancel funding for.

As a noun fund

is a sum or source of money.

fund

English

(wikipedia fund)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sum or source of money.
    • the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
    a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
  • An organization managing such money.
  • A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
    • Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
  • A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
    • He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
  • * Macaulay
    • 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 fund

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pay for.

    • defund

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cancel funding for.
  • * 1996 , Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement
    • Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?
  • * 2003 , David E Lewis, Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design
    • However, when Congress has attempted to defund a presidential agency, presidents have responded by creating new agencies to perform similar functions.
  • * 2010 , "Coming back to bite him", The Economist , 14 Oct 2010:
    • So Republicans are planning instead a strategy of “defunding ” the new health law.

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