funding

Other forms of funding

plural

fundings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about funding

What does funding mean?

funding means "financial resources provided to make some project possible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in funding?

funding has 2 syllables: fun-ding. The stress falls on "fun". In IPA it is /ˈfʌndɪŋ/.

What is another word for funding?

Close synonyms include support, financial support, backing, financial backing, financing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is funding a common word?

funding is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.