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fundraising

fundraising

3.3
Relating to events that collect money for a cause
  • adjective
  • /ˈfʌndˌreɪzɪŋ/
translation icon : de recaudación de fondos
  • The community organized a fundraising event to support local animal shelters.

The Republican Party reveals it's had the worst fundraising year in a decade.

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Examples

  • And then we went on a cruise, a fundraising cruise for the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund, which is a First Amendment thing.

  • "We made history," said Jim Messina, campaign manager for Obama for America, in a fundraising appeal.

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  • So it's a fantastic combination and a really good way to help the fundraising cause, the Food for Ukraine campaign.

  • The most recent fundraising round occurred in January of this year, as crypto had already begun its fall.

  • I'm also going out to dinner as a fundraising thing with, with some of the people who are attending the conference and they're paying some sort of premium.

  • Many schools host fundraising activities to raise money for new sports equipment.

  • They created a fundraising campaign to provide supplies for the homeless.

Surface Forms

fundraising positive

Morphology

fundraising = fundraise (transparent) = fund + raise + ing

A participial adjective formed from 'fundraise' + -ing, meaning 'relating to the activity of raising funds' which is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Fundraising as an adjective combines fund ('money kept for a purpose') and raise ('to lift up'), so a fundraising event is one that 'lifts up' money — it is an activity meant to collect money for an organisation or project.