Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To stop the flow of funds to.
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- verb transitive To
cancel funding for.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The American tea partyers are talking about a tactic called defund and disobey.
small dead animals 2009
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This has been an ongoing discussion for quite some time, with the reddest of the right-leaning anti-public broadcasting crowd fixing to "defund" and altogether eliminate some of the stalwarts of American news such as NPR and PBS.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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This has been an ongoing discussion for quite some time, with the reddest of the right-leaning anti-public broadcasting crowd fixing to "defund" and altogether eliminate some of the stalwarts of American news such as NPR and PBS.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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This has been an ongoing discussion for quite some time, with the reddest of the right-leaning anti-public broadcasting crowd fixing to "defund" and altogether eliminate some of the stalwarts of American news such as NPR and PBS.
Charles D. Ellison: Juan Williams: Clever Double-Play or Conservative Cause Celebre' Charles D. Ellison 2010
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Taxes were cut to "defund" government in order to "starve the beast."
Dave Johnson: Finance, Mine, Oil & Debt Disasters: THIS Is Deregulation 2010
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Taxes were cut to "defund" government in order to "starve the beast."
Dave Johnson: Finance, Mine, Oil & Debt Disasters: THIS Is Deregulation 2010
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Outgoing chairman of the Senate banking committee, Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), had threatened to "defund" the agency if Warren were appoint to head it on an interim basis and bypass Senate confirmation.
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Fund those troops and "defund" other sections of the defense budget.
Poll: More Favor Congressional Defunding Of War Than Oppose It 2009
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For thirty years, the right wing and their allies in Congress have tried to "defund" nonprofit organizations that organize and advocate on behalf of everyday Americans.
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So "defund" them to your hearts content, but know there are a host of your fellow capitalists who willingly send $$$ to keep them on the air.
Sound Politics: The 20 Minute Anti-War Commercial On KUOW 2007
biocon commented on the word defund
Defund means to pour down (Oxford English Dictionary).
August 23, 2011