Funded Fund Fʌnd Money Dance Festival Arts Museum

• a dance festival funded by the arts council
• the museum is privately funded.
• a government-funded programme
• infrastructure projects are centrally funded.

fund

1. to provide money for something, usually something official
• a dance festival funded by the Arts Council
• The museum is privately funded.
• a government-funded programme

Extra Examples

• Infrastructure projects are centrally funded.
• The GDPC is not directly funded by the taxpayer.
• The museum is funded solely from voluntary contributions.
• The school opted out of local authority control and is funded directly by the government.
• The venture is funded entirely by its board of directors.
• This money will help to fund administration costs.
• a new, fully funded training scheme
• a plan jointly funded by central and local government
• fully funded day care for our children
• Drug companies and the government will jointly fund the necessary medical research.
• It’s a government-funded programme for young offenders.
• She used the stolen money to fund her extravagant lifestyle.
• There is an annual dance festival funded by the Arts Council.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they fund
• he / she / it funds
• past simple funded
• past participle funded
• -ing form funding

Word Origin

• mid 17th cent.: from Latin fundus ‘bottom, piece of landed property’. The earliest sense was ‘the bottom or lowest part’, later ‘foundation or basis’; the association with money has perhaps arisen from the idea of landed property being a source of wealth.