Skip to main content

noun

funding

financial resources provided to make some project possible

In a sentence

Six example sentences with funding, each labelled with its topic.

  • Two grants and a small state loan supplied the funding that carried the team through its first eighteen months.

    Startups

  • Without funding for the telescope's new mirror, the observatory would have closed before the comet arrived.

    Science

  • The director spent three years chasing funding before a streaming service finally paid for the desert shoot.

    Movies

  • The council cut funding for the youth center by half, and the vote drew two hundred parents to the meeting.

    Politics

  • A charity supplied the funding for the mobile clinic, which now visits four villages a week.

    Medicine

  • Without funding from the city, the youth orchestra could not have afforded the bus to the regional finals.

    Music

Study funding until you keep it

Learn English words in sentences about topics you pick, with a quick quiz. With an account, words come back for review.

Found in these word lists

Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative

Each source is a published word list that contains funding. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.