Giving and transferring
Synonyms for fund
Synonyms for fund: finance, endow and underwrite. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for fund
Interchangeable with fund in this sense
Audited under fund's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fund carries in that sense.
- financeverb, in the sense "to provide money to support a project or activity"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fund as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- endowendow is a verb in the sense "to provide a permanent source of income or funding for"
- underwriteunderwrite is a verb in the sense "to agree to pay the costs of something"
The first group is filed under fund's own sense. The second reach fund from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
to provide money to support a project or activity
The foundation will fund the clinic's new equipment for the coming year.
The true synonym
finance
Same sentence, swapped: The foundation will finance the clinic's new equipment for the coming year.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- audit
- inspect
- license
Where fund turns up in the game
fund is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where fund is the trap
- replicateverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is duplicate, in the sense "to reproduce or copy exactly", and fund is on the board beside it.
- lumpverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is chunk, in the sense "put together indiscriminately", so fund is there to be ruled out.
- stocknoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is broth, in the sense "liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered", with fund sitting one tile away.
Play fund
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fund reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because giving and transferring is the company fund keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fund carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.