Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To fund anew.
- transitive verb To pay back (a debt) with new borrowing, especially to replace (a bond issue) with a new issue.
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Examples
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If a future Congress was so inclined to re-fund the organization, could they not revoke the permanent bar also either expressly pre-re-funding or implicitly by actually re-funding?
The Volokh Conspiracy » ACORN Challenges Congressional Defunding 2009
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If a future Congress was so inclined to re-fund the organization, could they not revoke the permanent bar also either expressly pre-re-funding or implicitly by actually re-funding?
The Volokh Conspiracy » ACORN Challenges Congressional Defunding 2009
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Is the answer to simply resurrect and re-fund all the Great Society Programs?
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Some elements it would include are limits on executive pay, fair and progressive taxation, strengthened regulation and public control, and measures to reduce foreclosures, create jobs, and re-fund human needs.
Mary Ellen McNish: Values Should Guide Response to Financial Crisis 2008
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A few Blue Jackets fans chanted ` ` We want a re-fund! '' in the third period - before their team came back with two goals to almost force overtime.
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The shuttered credit markets means that much of that would be impossible to re-fund today.
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In doing that, he lifted himself above all who supported the infringements upon and eradication of liberty, including the Democratic Party, who later signed-off on an even more prohibitive version of the surveillance bill in their rush to re-fund the war.
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When government loses trillions of dollars in these Middle East oil wars, and then again votes to re-fund the war effort, I have to wonder that anyone pays taxes.
Printing: Sins of Our Fathers: Rebuilding with Ruthless Honesty 2007
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While not to solely pick on Hillary Clinton: Has Barack Obama showed any temerity to go up against this powerful president when he has in the past voted to re-fund this war time and time again?
Mike Gravel unlike Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama bravely speaks truth to power 2007
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"Shallow Throat": Dems 'Cave-In Is Truly Scary yahooBuzzArticleHeadline ='"Shallow Throat": Dems\ 'Cave-In Is Truly Scary'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The high-ranking GOP mole says CheneyBush are gloating at the Democrats\' appalling strategic mistake in voting to re-fund the Iraq War.
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