- skip - Brewer’s

Fund

.

The sinking fund is money set aside by the Government for paying off a part of the national debt. This money is “sunk,” or withdrawn from circulation, for the bonds purchased by it are destroyed.

 

previous entry · index · next entry

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

previous entry · index · next entry

Full Cry
Full Dress
Full Fig (In)
Full Swing (In)
Fulsome
Fum
Fum the Fourth
Fumage
Fume
Fun
Fund
Funds
Funeral
Funeral Banquet
Funeral Games
Fungoso
Funk
Funny Bone
Furbelow
Furca
Furcam et Flagellum (gallows and whip)