index fund

1. 1.

   a mutual fund whose assets are stocks on a given list

   Broadermutual fund
2. 2.

   a mutual fund that invests in the stocks that are the basis of a well-known stock or bond index

   Broadermutual fund

Questions about index fund

What does index fund mean?

index fund means "a mutual fund whose assets are stocks on a given list". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is index fund a common word?

index fund is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.