defund

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ fund.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈfʌnd/
• Rhymes: -ʌnd

Verb

defund (third-person singular simple present defunds, present participle defunding, simple past and past participle defunded)

1. (transitive, chiefly US) To cancel funding for.

   Synonym: unfund

   • 1996, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement:

     Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?

   • 2003, David E Lewis, Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design:

     However, when Congress has attempted to defund a presidential agency, presidents have responded by creating new agencies to perform similar functions.

   • 2022 August 5, Claire Woodcock, “This Town Voted To Defund its Public Library After it Included LGBTQ+ Books”, in Vice.com‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 December 2022:

     "It has me concerned that this religiously-powered anti-access anti-person campaign has succeeded in a small town in America already," Chrastka told Motherboard. "The idea that there is a breakdown in the respect that we used to have in America for the separation of church and state and a rise of a political perspective that wants to essentially break government, defund education, approach issues around the rights of individual humans as if it was a criminalization campaign... this is a troubling moment and a signal for the rest of America to wake up."

Anagrams

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