Noun

• S: (n) support, financial support, funding, backing, financial backing (financial resources provided to make some project possible) "the foundation provided support for the experiment"
• S: (n) financing, funding (the act of financing)

Verb

• S: (v) fund (convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• sentence frame
• S: (v) fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)
• S: (v) fund (provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest)
• S: (v) fund (invest money in government securities)
• S: (v) fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability) "fund a medical care plan"
• S: (v) fund (furnish money for) "The government funds basic research in many areas"