Noun

• A sum or source of money.
• An organization managing such money.
• A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
• A large supply of something to be drawn upon.

Exemple

• the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
• a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
• Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
• He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
• an inexhaustible fund of stories

Verb

• (transitive) To pay for.
• (transitive) To place (money) in a fund.
• (transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.

Exemple

• He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.

Noun

• A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
• Multiple related objects associated as a group.
• The activity of collecting.
• (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.
• A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
• (law) Debt collection.
• (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
• (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
• The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Examples

• Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
• collections of moisture
• a purulent collection
• The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
• The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
• Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you’re well enough off so’s you don’t have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
• He has a superb coin collection.
• Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
• We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.