in funds
English
WOTD – 7 February 2021
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪn ˈfʌndz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪn ˈfʌndz/, [-ˈfəndz]
Adjective
- (chiefly British, dated) Having enough money to spend.
- 1911 October, Edith Wharton, chapter III, in Ethan Frome (The Scribner Library; SL8), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 71:
- [H]e knew from experience the imprudence of letting Zeena think he was in funds on the eve of one of her therapeutic excursions.
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Further reading
- “in funds, phrase” under “fund, n.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2017.
- “in funds, phrase”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “in funds” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “in funds” (US) / “in funds” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
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