sinking fund

1. 1.

   a fund accumulated regularly in a separate account and used to redeem debt securities

   Broaderfund

Questions about sinking fund

What does sinking fund mean?

sinking fund means "a fund accumulated regularly in a separate account and used to redeem debt securities".

Is sinking fund a common word?

sinking fund is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.