🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

自己資金

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jiko shikin

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Personal funds/ˈpɜː.səl.ən.fʌndz/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼は事業のために自己資金を使いました。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Money or financial resources that belong to an individual person rather than a business, organization, or government.

    "She decided to use her personal funds to finance the initial stages of the startup."
  2. 2

    Private monetary reserves available for personal expenditure or investment.

    "The purchase of the luxury vehicle was made entirely out of personal funds."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'personal', derived from the Old French 'personal' and Latin 'personalis' (relating to a person), and 'funds', from the Latin 'fundus' (bottom, foundation, piece of landed property). Historically evolving through Late Middle English, the compound denotes financial resources belonging to an individual rather than an institution, corporation, or public entity.

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