1.fundamental

1.a sum of money for a special purpose

2.available money

3.stock entry 1 sense 1, supply

4.a sum of money or other resources whose principal or interest is set aside for a specific objective

5.a fund established by each state to compensate clients for losses suffered due to their attorneys' misappropriation of funds

6.an in-house trust fund established by a bank trust department to pool the assets of many small trusts for greater diversification in investing

7.a fund established in estate planning to provide for the payment of final expenses by an executor

8.a fund that is established by collective bargaining to provide health and welfare benefits to employees and that is jointly administered by representatives of labor and management

9.a reserve cash fund in lieu of a capital stock account set up by mutual insurance companies to cover unforeseen losses

10.a fund set up and accumulated by regular deposits for paying off the principal on a debt or for other specified purposes (as self-insurance)

11.a fund accumulated by a union through special assessments or from general funds and used to pay striking workers or for other strike-related activities

12.joint welfare fund in this entry

13.property (as money or securities) settled or held in a trust

14.an organization administering a special fund

15.a fund that is similar to an index fund in tracking a stock index but that is traded on the stock market

16.a mutual fund that invests in the stock of growth companies

17.an investing group usually in the form of a limited partnership that employs speculative techniques in the hope of obtaining large capital gains

18.a mutual fund that invests to reflect the composition of the market as a whole by matching its investments to a stock index

19.an investment company that invests its shareholders' money in a usually diversified group of securities of other companies

20.an investment company that buys up bankrupt or insolvent companies with the goal of reorganizing them so they can be profitably resold as going concerns

1.to make provision of resources for discharging the principal or interest of

2.to provide financial resources for

3.to place in a fund

4.to convert into a debt that is payable either at a distant date or at no definite date and that bears a fixed interest

1.to make provision of resources for discharging the interest or principal of

2.to provide funds for

3.to place in a fund : accumulate

4.to convert into a debt that is payable either at a distant date or at no definite date and that bears a fixed interest