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Definitions for funding
fund·ing

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word funding.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. support, financial support, funding, backing, financial backingnoun

    financial resources provided to make some project possible

    "the foundation provided support for the experiment"

  2. financing, fundingnoun

    the act of financing

Wiktionary

  1. fundingnoun

    The action of the verb fund.

  2. fundingnoun

    Money provided as funds.

    The council is providing funding to the church to repair the roof.

Wikipedia

  1. Funding

    Funding is the act of providing resources to finance a need, program, or project. While this is usually in the form of money, it can also take the form of effort or time from an organization or company. Generally, this word is used when a firm uses its internal reserves to satisfy its necessity for cash, while the term financing is used when the firm acquires capital from external sources.Sources of funding include credit, venture capital, donations, grants, savings, subsidies, and taxes. Fundings such as donations, subsidies, and grants that have no direct requirement for return of investment are described as "soft funding" or "crowdfunding". Funding that facilitates the exchange of equity ownership in a company for capital investment via an online funding portal per the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (alternately, the "JOBS Act of 2012") (U.S.) is known as equity crowdfunding. Funds can be allocated for either short-term or long-term purposes.

ChatGPT

  1. funding

    Funding refers to the financial resources, capital, or money provided to a business, project, organization, or individual, to carry out specific activities or achieve certain objectives. This money could come from various sources such as government grants, investments, sales, or donations. The condition for receiving funding often involves reporting back on how the funds were used and the outcomes achieved.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Funding

    of Fund

  2. Fundingadjective

    providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt

  3. Fundingadjective

    investing in the public funds

Wikidata

  1. Funding

    Funding is the act of providing resources, usually in form of money, or other values such as effort or time, 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, venture capital, donations, grants, savings, subsidies, and taxes. Fundings such as donations, subsidies, and grants that have no direct requirement for return of investment are described as "soft funding" or "crowdfunding". Funding that facilitates the exchange of equity ownership in a company for capital investment via an online funding portal as per the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act is known as equity crowdfunding. Funds can be allocated for either short-term or long-term purposes.

Editors Contribution

  1. funding

    Is the act of providing resources in the form of money, effort or time.

    The organization received a form of funding to ensure it could continue its service provision.


    Submitted by MaryC on December 27, 2019  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'funding' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2710

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'funding' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1943

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'funding' in Nouns Frequency: #1123

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of funding in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of funding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of funding in a Sentence

  1. Justice Department:

    Rather than inquiring further as to the scope or sources of Dr. Xu's foreign funding, and rather than determining whether any of the grants listed in the press release required disclosure to NIH, VARI removed the Chinese grants from the proposed funding attributions in its press release.

  2. Tatsusaburo Yamamoto:

    We would like to diversify our risks and strengthen our income generation capacity via a new style of investment in middle-risk, middle-return assets such as infrastructure funding.

  3. Nancy Pelosi:

    Stealing from appropriated funds is always unacceptable, but to pick the pockets of disaster relief funding in order to fund an appalling, inhumane family incarceration plan is staggering - and to do so on the eve of hurricane season is stunningly reckless.

  4. Stephen Hargarten:

    The bullet enters the body, and the energy, as it dissipates, tissues stretch and lacerate, bones fracture. The bullet and its kinetic energy causes acute injury, we advocate for research funding support so we can seek better ways to prevent these injuries and to improve the treatment of these injuries that impact long-term disabilities.

  5. Dakota Wood:

    Congress and the administration took positive steps to stabilize funding for fiscal years 2018, 2019, and 2020 through the Bipartisan Budget Agreement of 2018, while this allayed the most serious concerns about a return to the damaging levels of the BCA, more will be needed in the years to come to ensure that Americas armed services are properly sized, equipped, trained, and ready to meet the missions they are called upon to fulfill.

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