See Also: incoming(dictionary)
incoming(2)(dictionary)
incoming(1)(dictionary)
Go-go fund(finance)
API Fund(finance)
T-Rex fund(finance)
fund(1)(dictionary)
fund(2)(dictionary)
FUND(finance)
Fund(money)

fund(1) (iou) and incoming (oh)


fund(1) (iou)



fund noun. M17.
[Latin fundus bottom. Partly refash. of FOND noun after this.]
The bottom, the lowest part. M17-M18.
Basis, foundation. L17-M18.
A source of supply, a permanent stock ready to be drawn upon. (Now chiefly of immaterial things.) L17.
A. Uttley He had..a fund of good humour and laughter. Day Lewis A certain fund of calm within myself.
a. A stock or sum of money, esp. as set apart for a particular purpose. L17.
A. C. Boult He..organized a fund to give concerts in hospitals.
b. In pl. The money at a person's disposal; financial resources. E18.
R. Campbell All my funds ran out but I got a job. A. Eden My mother's effort to raise funds to build a cottage hospital.
spec.
a. A portion of revenue set apart as Security for specified payments. L17-E19.
b. In pl. (exc. in comb.). The stock of the National Debt as a mode of investment; government securities. arch. E18.
C. S. Lewis He wore the expression of a nineteenth-century gentleman with something in the Funds.
= FOUNT noun2. L17.
Phrases: Consolidated Fund: see CONSOLIDATE verb 1. in funds having money to spend. in the fund at bottom. sinking fund: see SINKING verbal noun. trust fund: see TRUST noun.
Comb.: fund-holder (a) arch. a person who has money invested in the stock of the national Debt; (b) a General practitioner controlling a budget provided to his or her practice by the National Health Service. fund-raiser, fund-raising (a person engaged in) persuading individuals or organizations to provide financial support for a cause, enterprise, etc.

incoming (oh)



arriving at or coming to a place
-opposite outgoing outgoing
::incoming flights
::Incoming calls were monitored.
::the incoming tide
an incoming president, government etc has just been elected or chosen
-opposite outgoing outgoing
::It is hoped that the incoming administration will inject some life into Capitol Hill.