{
  "id": "fund.financial",
  "term": "fund",
  "sense": "financial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "fund",
  "domain": "money.economic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "money for a purpose",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "money.economic",
      "purpose.goal"
    ],
    "interaction": "money is for purpose",
    "novel_properties": [
      "designated use",
      "collective pool"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation allocated $1.7 billion to fight malaria between 2000 and 2020.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. government's 2009 Troubled Asset Relief Program distributed $426 billion to stabilize financial institutions.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The James Webb Space Telescope mission consumed $10 billion in funding from NASA, ESA, and CSA over two decades.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "resource.material",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "fund",
    "funded",
    "funding",
    "funds"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fund.financial"
}