assets in the form of money
"The company successfully secured new funds to expand its operations into three additional markets."
plural of fund
"The company successfully secured new funds to expand its manufacturing facilities."
Financial resources.
In plain English: Funds are money that you have available to spend or use for something.
"They decided to put their savings into funds for the new community center."
Usage: Use "funds" to refer to money available for use or investment, such as when discussing a company's financial reserves or personal savings. It functions as both a plural noun and a mass noun, so it does not take an apostrophe to indicate possession (e.g., write "the funds are low," not "the funds' are low").
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fund
"The senator funds the new bridge project by approving the budget amendments today."
In plain English: To fund something is to give someone the money they need to do it.
"The investors will fund the construction of the new bridge next year."
Usage: Use "funds" as a verb only when describing the third-person singular action of providing money or resources to someone or something, such as "She funds her startup." In everyday conversation, people often mistakenly use it as a noun for cash on hand; remember that the noun form is always plural.
Derived from Old French fonds (bottom, foundation) via Anglo-Norman, the term originally referred to the lowest part of a vessel or the base of a building before evolving to mean capital resources. Its modern sense of money available for use emerged in the 17th century through the metaphorical extension of "foundation" to financial assets.