'Sinking fund' definitions:

Definition of 'sinking fund'

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

Definition of 'Sinking fund'

From: GCIDE
  • Sinking \Sink"ing\, a. & n. from Sink. [1913 Webster]
  • Sinking fund. See under Fund.
  • Sinking head (Founding), a riser from which the mold is fed as the casting shrinks. See Riser, n., 4.
  • Sinking pump, a pump which can be lowered in a well or a mine shaft as the level of the water sinks. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sinking fund'

From: GCIDE
  • Fund \Fund\, n. [OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.]
  • 1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. pl. The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. [1913 Webster]
  • An inexhaustible fund of stories. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest. [1913 Webster]