1
as in financing
to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income
her will funded a new science center for her beloved alma mater
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2
as in subsidizing
to provide money for
Dad advised me to get a job because he wasn't going to fund my social life forever
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as in subsidy
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funding
Noun
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Despite years of federal subsidies, solar and wind cannot produce enough baseload energy to meet demand.—
Chris Talgo,
Boston Herald,
13 July 2025 -
These kinds of choices are all over our lives, where either our social structures, our institutions make the costs invisible or whether, in some cases, there are literal subsidies to industries that artificially decrease the prices of things.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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His research findings can be applied China’s current strategy of subsidizing distressed companies, which is driving cheaper exports into global markets and could pose challenges for local suppliers.—
IESE Business School,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Then why is the public subsidizing this activity?—
Evan Simon,
ABC News,
19 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Marauder Pictures will make docs and narrative features and has brought in Mark Waugh, former global Chief Content Officer at Publicis Groupe, to drive innovation in the financing, marketing and distribution sides of production.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
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Aside from finding areas where Kodak can succeed, Continenza has focused on paying down the company’s debt and obtaining more appropriate financing to go with the company’s restructuring.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Washington University has seen its endowment balloon in recent years—at the end of fiscal 2021, the endowment netted a mind-boggling 65% return (the median return for college endowments that year was 27%), which brought its value from $9.6 billion to $15.3 billion.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The law increases the tax to 8% on the near-trillion dollars of bloated university endowments — money that was never taxed.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
9 July 2025
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“Funding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funding. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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