funding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌndɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌndɪŋ

Verb

funding

1. present participle and gerund of fund

Noun

funding (countable and uncountable, plural fundings)

1. The action of the verb fund.
   • 2021 May 5, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Heathrow Western Rail Access scheme 'on hold'”, in RAIL, number 930, page 26:

     However the collapse in demand for rail and air travel caused by the pandemic has had a knock-on effect for the project's funding.

2. Money provided as funds.

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

   • 2013, Brian Nelson, Law and Ethics in Global Business:

     Second, a bank can commit to provide a maximum amount of money (e.g., $US1,000,000) in one or more fundings over a set period of time (e.g., one year). Such credit facilities are called “lines of credit.”

Derived terms

• backpack funding
• funding liquidity risk
• seed funding
• soft funding

 

Translations

money provided as funds

• Catalan: finançament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資金／资金 (zh) (zījīn), 融資／融资 (zh) (róngzī), 經費／经费 (zh) (jīngfèi)

• Danish: midler (da) n pl, bevilling c
• Dutch: financiering (nl)
• Finnish: rahoitus (fi)
• French: financement (fr) m
• German: Finanzierung (de) f
• Irish: maoiniú m
• Japanese: 資金 (ja) (しきん, shikin), 融資 (ja) (ゆうし, yūshi)
• Malay: dana (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: finansiering m or f

  Nynorsk: finansiering f

• Polish: finansowanie (pl) n, fundowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: financiamento (pt) m
• Russian: финанси́рование (ru) n (finansírovanije)
• Spanish: financiación (es) f, financiamiento m
• Swedish: finansiering (sv) c