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{
"term": "funding",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "money for a particular purpose; the act of providing money for such a purpose",
"sensetop": "funding for something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**federal/state funding**"
},
{
"text": "There have been large cuts in **government funding** for scientific research.",
"contextForm": "funding for something"
},
{
"text": "Alex originally struggled to **secure funding** for the project."
},
{
"text": "to **receive/get/obtain funding** for something"
},
{
"text": "to **provide/allocate funding** for something"
},
{
"text": "to withdraw/cut funding for something"
},
{
"text": "About 70 per cent of current funding has gone on schools."
},
{
"text": "Half of the research posts depend on outside funding."
},
{
"text": "It gave us more time to raise the necessary funding."
},
{
"text": "Most of our funding comes from private sources."
},
{
"text": "Much of the funding dried up in the 1990s."
},
{
"text": "Present levels of funding have forced the school to close."
},
{
"text": "The president has promised full funding for the plans."
},
{
"text": "The refusal to provide extra funding for schools caused a storm."
},
{
"text": "The school has attracted funding from a number of sources."
},
{
"text": "We need to make sure that the funding goes to areas where its most needed."
},
{
"text": "the clandestine funding of an illegal group"
},
{
"text": "public funding for the arts"
}
],
"topics": ["Business", "Social issues", "Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["adequate", "proper", "sufficient"],
"verb + funding": [
"award somebody/something",
"give somebody/something",
"provide (somebody/something with)"
],
"funding + verb": ["come from somebody/something", "go", "increase"],
"funding + noun": ["shortfall", "crisis", "cut"],
"preposition": ["… in funding", "… of funding", "funding from"],
"phrases": [
"a cut in funding",
"an increase in funding",
"a lack of funding"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfʌndɪŋ/",
"audio": "fu/funding/funding__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfʌndɪŋ/",
"audio": "fu/funding/funding__us_4.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}