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Fund vs Subvention - What's the difference?

fund | subvention |

As nouns the difference between fund and subvention

is that fund is discovery, finding, find (something that is found) while subvention is a subsidy; provision of financial or other support.

As a verb subvention is

to subsidise.

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.

    • subvention

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A subsidy; provision of financial or other support.
  • The act of coming under.
  • * Stackhouse
    • The subvention of a cloud.
  • The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To subsidise.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 136:
    • His task was, it is true, made easier by the need of the English to remove troops to put down the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising, which the French had subventioned .
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