Etymology PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Borrowed from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus.
1
A sum or source of money.
the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
2
An organization managing such money.
3
A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
4
A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
an inexhaustible fund of stories1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
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He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun.1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14: