English

Verb

defund ‎(third-person singular simple present defunds, present participle defunding, simple past and past participle defunded)

1. (transitive, chiefly US) To cancel funding for.
   • 1996, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement

     Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?

   • 2003, David E Lewis, Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design

     However, when Congress has attempted to defund a presidential agency, presidents have responded by creating new agencies to perform similar functions.

   • 2010, "Coming back to bite him", The Economist, 14 Oct 2010:

     So Republicans are planning instead a strategy of “defunding” the new health law.

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• funded