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Reserve fund   /rɪzˈərv fənd/   Listen
Reserve fund

noun
1.
Funds taken out of earnings to provide for anticipated future payments.  Synonym: reserve account.






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"Reserve fund" Quotes from Famous Books



... Peloponnesian squadron which attempted to move was promptly driven into Piraeus by an Athenian fleet and blockaded. On the open revolt of some of the states, the Athenians for the first time brought into play their reserve fund and reserve navy—the emergency had arisen. While one after another of the subject cities revolted, the Athenians struck hard at Chios, and especially Miletus, and obtained marked successes. Meanwhile, a revolution in Samos had expelled ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... war, by means of a voluntary loan among the rich (544). They spent the moneys belonging to minors; and at length, in the year of the conquest of Tarentum, they laid hands on the last long-spared reserve fund (164,000 pounds). The state nevertheless was unable to meet its most necessary payments; the pay of the soldiers fell dangerously into arrear, particularly in the more remote districts. But the embarrassment ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... pleasing to many, is that variety of landscape made famous, and even popular, by Dupre and Daubigny. So, on the whole, Pontoise, and the country round about, should properly be classed among the things to which few have ever given more than a passing glance, but which have a vast reserve fund of attractions hidden behind them, needing only to be sought out to ...
— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

... the country, it is forbidden by the constitution to monopolize the issue of notes or guarantee the circulation of any bank. For the past ten years, however, it has controlled the circulation of the banks, the amount of their reserve fund, and the publication of their reports.[H] The latter may be called for at the discretion of the executive council, in fact ...
— Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum • James W. Sullivan

... impracticable than at the camp; I was, however, most delighted to have found it, otherwise I should have had to retreat to the last creek. I determined, however, not to touch it now, but to keep it as a reserve fund, should I be unable to find more out west. Returning to camp, we gave the horses all the water remaining, and left the spot ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles

... at once. Johnny Carr, I noticed, said nothing, and fidgeted rather uneasily in his chair. I knew what the President meant. He meant, "If we don't pay, pay it out of your reserve fund." Alas, the reserve fund was considerably diminished; I had enough, and just enough, left to pay the next installment if I paid none of my own debts. I felt very vicious as I saw his Excellency taking keen pleasure in the consciousness of my difficulties (for he had a shrewd notion ...
— A Man of Mark • Anthony Hope



Words linked to "Reserve fund" :   stockpile, pool, reserve, allowance, valuation account, valuation reserve, backlog, hidden reserve, allowance account



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