Definition of Funding

1. Noun. Financial resources provided to make some project possible. "The foundation provided support for the experiment"

Exact synonyms: Backing, Financial Backing, Financial Support, Support
Generic synonyms: Resource
Derivative terms: Back, Fund, Support

2. Noun. The act of financing.
Exact synonyms: Financing
Generic synonyms: Finance
Derivative terms: Finance, Fund

Definition of Funding

1. a. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

Definition of Funding

1. Verb. (present participle of fund) ¹

2. Noun. The action of the verb fund. ¹

3. Noun. Money provided as funds. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Funding

1. fund [v] - See also: fund

Medical Definition of Funding

1. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Funding

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funding (current term)
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Literary usage of Funding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Community Mediation Programs: Developments and Challenges by Daniel McGillis (1999)
"The Need for Increased Program funding The many problems associated with relatively low levels of program funding were discussed previously. ..."

2. Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve: Findings of the National by Martha R. Burt (1999)
"Figure 4.7 shows these differences as the proportion of program budgets that come from government funding; private funding makes up the balance of each ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Afterwards funding bonds were issued in exchange for old bonds in the following form: The law under which the original bonds were put out was sufficient. ..."

4. Maintaining Budgetary Discipline: Spending and Revenue Options edited by Sherry Snyder (1999)
"Otherwise, the federal government might be increasing the funding for a broader ... To this end, the NSF could reduce its funding of social, behavioral, ..."

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