fund-raising effort
- noun
- /ˈfʌndˌreɪzɪŋ ˈɛfərt/
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esfuerzo de recaudación de fondos
- The fair, scheduled Sept. 16-20, is a fund-raising effort for Rainbow House, the county's shelter for neglected and abused children.
Examples
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Alan Dershowitz: "My generation of Jews... became part of what is perhaps the most effective lobbying and fund-raising effort in the history of democracy."
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KQED is going public with its most ambitious fund-raising effort ever, a "Campaign for the Future" that seeks to raise $70 million.
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San Francisco's fund-raising efforts generated $11.4 million compared to Chicago's $7.2 million.
Synonyms
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2.7
An event to raise money for a group or cause
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2.1
The act of asking people to give money, often to help others
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2.8
A request for money to help a charity or cause
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2.1
An organized event, like a concert, to raise money or attention for people in need
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A planned effort to collect money for a cause
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A planned event to collect money for a cause
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4.0
An online campaign to collect small donations from many people for a project
A request asking people to give money to help others
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is a straightforward composition of 'fund-raising' (organizing activities to collect donations) and 'effort' (an organized series of actions), so the meaning 'an organized campaign to collect money' is directly derivable from the parts. This follows regular English compound/nominalization patterns and similar expressions exist in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Fund-raising effort comes from a simple image: people would hold up a collection bucket to gather funds, so the word raising here means lifting or bringing money together. That's why the phrase now means an organized activity to 'collect money' for a cause.