Funding
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:
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Fund·ing
a.
1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.
2. Investing in the public funds.
Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt.
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1. refinancing a debt on or before its maturity; also called refunding and, in certain instances, prerefunding.
2. putting money into investments or another type of reserve fund, to provide for future pension or welfare plans.
3. in corporate finance, the word funding is preferred to financing when referring to bonds in contrast to stock. A company is said to be funding its operations if it floats bonds.
4. to provide funds to finance a project, such as a research study.
See also sinking fund.
| Funded Pension Plan, Funded Debt | |
| Fungibles, Furthest Month |
Roget's Thesaurus:
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funding
noun
- Money or property used to produce more wealth: backing, capital, capitalization, financing, grubstake, stake, subsidization. See help/harm/harmless, money.
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Funding
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Funding is the act of providing resources, usually in form of money (financing), or other values such as effort or time (sweat equity), for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institutions. The process of soliciting and gathering fund is known as fundraising.
Sources of funding include credit, donations, grants, savings, subsidies, taxes, Fundings such as donations, subsidies and grants that have no direct requirement for return of investment are described as "soft funding", "crowd funding", or "hyper funding".
Funds can be allocated for either short-term or long-term purposes.
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Funding
Nederlands (Dutch)
financiering
Français (French)
n. - financement
Deutsch (German)
n. - Finanzierung
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κεφάλαιο, οικονομικός ή χρηματοδοτικός πόρος, δημόσια ομόλογα
Italiano (Italian)
finanziamento
Português (Portuguese)
n. - fundo (m) (dinheiro)
Русский (Russian)
финансирование
Español (Spanish)
n. - financiación
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - finansiera
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
资金
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 資金
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 国債の借換え, 積立て, 公債投資, 基金繰入れ
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) تمويل
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מימון, הזרמת כסף
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