{
    "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
}