🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

togliere i fondi

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈtɔʎ.ʎe.re i ˈfɔn.di

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Defund/diːˈfʌnd/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Hanno deciso di togliere i fondi al programma di ricerca."

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1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To withdraw financial support from an organization, program, or project.

    "Activists called on the city council to defund the police department and reallocate the resources to social services."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix de- (meaning 'down', 'away', or 'reversing') combined with the noun fund, which traces its roots back to the Latin fundus meaning 'bottom' or 'foundation'. While the verb pattern has existed previously in bureaucratic contexts, it gained widespread political prominence in the late 20th and early 21st centuries to describe the withdrawal of financial support from an institution or program.

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