Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An owner of government stock or public securities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective One who has money invested in the public funds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK a
general practitioner who manages his ownbudget ,purchasing healthcare from one or morehospital trusts
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Examples
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The fundholder was a weight upon all industry, and as dead a weight as the landlord.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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A prospectus is a legally binding contract between the fund itself and the fundholder.
Digging Deeper: The Mutual Fund Prospectus Shauna Carther 2010
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A prospectus is a legally binding contract between the fund itself and the fundholder.
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If you're a fundholder, the largest threat is that other fundholders -- especially Magellan's -- will cash out.
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But the risks for a fundholder multiply in a place that rewards individual performance at the expense of teamwork.
The Light Went On 2008
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_285 Parvenu: (Note) A sort of fundholder 1822, editions 1824,
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He evidently is not aware that when a public writer assumes a character he is bound to hold to it consistently; and that as "ATTICUS" was then writing on the subject of the national debt, and objecting to the financial policy of the minister, he naturally affected to be a fundholder, to be frightened, and to have, in consequence, removed his property.
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There he died soon after, and though comparatively a poor man, he left his daughter sufficiently well provided for as a modest fundholder and claimant of sundry small sums in dividends to maintain herself as mistress at Peakhill.
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884
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The interest on the national debt was unpaid, and the fundholder was dismayed and exasperated by an announcement that only two-fifths would be discharged in cash.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre John Morley 1880
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The proposal for conversion proved, under circumstances already described, to have no attraction for the fundholder.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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