Money raised to finance a campaign, especially one supporting a political or social cause.
〈英〉（尤指支持政治或社会事业运动的）斗争基金
the action group launched a fighting fund to pay legal costs if defeated
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A fighting fund has now been set up to make sure money is available for any future legal battles.
Already the protesters have had to call on every family in the area to donate £10 after managing to raise just £200 towards a fighting fund.
It had collected £1,065 in a fighting fund to mount a legal challenge in the High Court against the council's decision.
Campaigners are distributing 20,000 postcards in a drive to raise a fighting fund of £50,000.
Unions at the school have raised a fighting fund to support a colleague who claims she was dismissed for complaining about stress to her bosses.
The fighting fund currently stands at £80,000 but many pledges of support for the sponsor-a-seat campaign have yet to be counted.
We have already launched a fighting fund, as obtaining the services of a barrister to fight our corner at a full public inquiry will not be cheap.
Our case has been given nationwide publicity and we raised £20,000 for a fighting fund.
Supporters were collecting cash to put in the hunting fighting fund pot.
On 29 August a fighting fund was launched and a pamphlet organised for publicity to include the names of consenting committee members.
Party insiders estimate a fighting fund of at least £500,000 is needed to seize power at Holyrood.
But he confirmed that all money paid to him potentially ends up in his fighting fund.
After the speech, Mr Galloway appealed for donations to his legal fighting fund against the Daily Telegraph and the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor newspaper, which made similar allegations.
Since the protest by Lee residents, local councils and politicians was launched almost a year ago to the day money and time has been poured into the fighting fund in a bid to defeat the government's proposals for the former military airbase.
Obviously when we sort the money from the fighting fund out, as much as possible will go to Mrs Griffith and Mrs Waller.
Altogether around 200 responded and he raised a fighting fund of 80,000.
The pool has been shut because of a faulty filter and now the association has launched a fighting fund in a bid to raise £110,000 ‘very quickly.’
Parents fighting to retain a school in the north Pembrokeshire village of Hermon have launched a new fighting fund.
Campaigners against an incinerator in East Hull have started a fighting fund to raise money for a barrister to fight their corner at a public inquiry.
I am sure he was motivated by the very best intentions when he raised 80,000 from 200 victims for a fighting fund to buy insurance against the nasty consequences of a court defeat.