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单词 defund
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Definition of defund in English:

defund

verbdiːˈfʌnd
[with object]US
  • Prevent from continuing to receive funds.

    〈美〉阻止…继续接受资金

    the California Legislature has defunded the Industrial Welfare Commission

    加利福尼亚州议会已经阻止工业福利委员会继续接受资金。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘If a racist group set up shop at school, other groups would risk defunding for ‘questioning the racist group's legitimacy,’ he explained.
    • We further urge reinstatement of the many worthy programs that have been dropped, defunded, or disbanded through partisan political interference.
    • If that were the goal of government institutions, people would feel very differently about them, and would not be so open to defunding the public sector.
    • And we are basically defunding our homeland security effort.
    • They simply want us to no longer exist, and defunding us is a good place to start.
    • This, too, dovetails nicely with their goal of defunding the party and turning it into the token opposition in a one-party state.
    • The implied threat, of course, is that if they did they'd be defunded.
    • But the sad thing was that it makes this program look really robust, when it's being significantly defunded.
    • ‘If the parliament thinks they have lost the plot they could be defunded,’ he threatened.
    • Ironically, some people are staying in prison longer precisely because the halfway houses they're mandated to transfer to are being defunded and closed.
    • ‘What they're thinking of is not only the fact of just making these courts go away and re-creating them the next day but also defunding them,’ he said.
    • I think public broadcasting should be defunded - for its own good.
    • A 63% majority voted for defunding, but the incoming government ignored the result, claiming defunding would not withstand a court challenge.
    • Political parties have been significantly defunded and have less resources to finance their activities.
    • Let's defund their little game and tell them to police their own lives and keep their hands off of ours.
    • As a result, tens of contaminated sites have been defunded.
    • If they don't like what the courts are doing, they threaten to defund the courts.
    • If they're not met, the offending scientist and the institution he works for is defunded.
    • But since it's hard to win elections when you're defunding programs that many voters have come to depend upon, it's easier to simply leave things as they are and run deficits.
    • Demobilization and disarmament are, of course, the major tactics; but so is defunding.

Definition of defund in US English:

defund

verbdēˈfənd
[with object]US
  • Prevent from continuing to receive funds.

    〈美〉阻止…继续接受资金

    the California Legislature has defunded the Industrial Welfare Commission

    加利福尼亚州议会已经阻止工业福利委员会继续接受资金。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And we are basically defunding our homeland security effort.
    • A 63% majority voted for defunding, but the incoming government ignored the result, claiming defunding would not withstand a court challenge.
    • ‘If a racist group set up shop at school, other groups would risk defunding for ‘questioning the racist group's legitimacy,’ he explained.
    • They simply want us to no longer exist, and defunding us is a good place to start.
    • The implied threat, of course, is that if they did they'd be defunded.
    • I think public broadcasting should be defunded - for its own good.
    • If they're not met, the offending scientist and the institution he works for is defunded.
    • Political parties have been significantly defunded and have less resources to finance their activities.
    • If that were the goal of government institutions, people would feel very differently about them, and would not be so open to defunding the public sector.
    • But since it's hard to win elections when you're defunding programs that many voters have come to depend upon, it's easier to simply leave things as they are and run deficits.
    • ‘If the parliament thinks they have lost the plot they could be defunded,’ he threatened.
    • But the sad thing was that it makes this program look really robust, when it's being significantly defunded.
    • Ironically, some people are staying in prison longer precisely because the halfway houses they're mandated to transfer to are being defunded and closed.
    • Demobilization and disarmament are, of course, the major tactics; but so is defunding.
    • ‘What they're thinking of is not only the fact of just making these courts go away and re-creating them the next day but also defunding them,’ he said.
    • This, too, dovetails nicely with their goal of defunding the party and turning it into the token opposition in a one-party state.
    • Let's defund their little game and tell them to police their own lives and keep their hands off of ours.
    • As a result, tens of contaminated sites have been defunded.
    • We further urge reinstatement of the many worthy programs that have been dropped, defunded, or disbanded through partisan political interference.
    • If they don't like what the courts are doing, they threaten to defund the courts.
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