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This fund was the second-best performing foreign general equity fund over three years after a tracker fund, which is excluded from the PlexCrown Ratings and the Raging Bull Awards.

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  1. noun A source of supply; a stock: a fund of goodwill.
  2. noun A sum of money or other resources set aside for a specific purpose: a pension fund.
  3. noun Available money; ready cash: short on funds.
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  • This fund was the second-best performing foreign general equity fund over three years after a tracker fund, which is excluded from the PlexCrown Ratings and the Raging Bull Awards. —  Persfin
  • Donations for the fund should be addressed to Cherelle Clarke Fund, c / o Pioneer Savings Bank, 1761 Central Ave., —  timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
  • Ideal holding period for a fund should be around 3-5 yrs. —  rediff.com
  • At $45.2 billion, the fund is already at a five-year low. —  Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
  • Monies for the fund will be appropriated based on the average costs incurred by these agencies to suppress catastrophic, emergency wildfires over the preceding five years.
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investment ·  stock ·  resource ·  money ·  capital ·  income ·  bond ·  credit ·  cost ·  investor ·  option ·  supply

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fund:   funding ·  funds ·  funded
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  1. Latin fundus, bottom, piece of land.

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  1. In literally sense also fond (see fond), fund being accommodation to the L. form; from Old French fond, a bottom, floor, ground, foundation, also a merchant's stock or capital, French fond, bottom, ground, fonds, estate, plural fonds, funds, stock, = Provencal fons = Spanish fondo, fundo = Portuguese fundo = Italian fondo, from Latin fundus, bottom, also, in particular, a piece of land, a farm, estate, orig. *fudnus = English bottom: see bottom. Hence (from Latin fundus) ult. English found, foundation, etc.
  2. from fund, n.
  3. Middle English funden, an earlier form of founden, strive, go: see found.
 

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