funds n : assets in the form of money [syn: finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource]

English

Noun

funds

1. Plural of fund.

Verb

funds

1. Third-person singular of to fund.

Funding or financing is to provide capital (funds), which means money for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institutions.

Those funds can be allocated for either short term or long term purposes.

The health fund is a new way of funding private healthcare centers.

Sources of funding

Among the main sources of funding, there are:

• Savings
• Credit
• Donations,
• Lottery
• Subsidies, Grants
• Taxes

See also

• Investment
• Foundation (charity)
• Peer-to-peer lending
• Research funding
• Seed money

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