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defund
[ dee-fuhnd ]
verb (used with object)
- to withdraw financial support from, especially as an instrument of legislative control:
Many university programs were defunded by the recent government cutbacks.
- to deplete the financial resources of:
The cost of the lawsuit defunded the company's operating budget.
Example Sentences
The Trump administration will undoubtedly be emboldened to engage in unlawful, vindictive defunding of other universities, and now it will be politically harder for the next university to fight back.
Every so often across my 21 years as a TV critic at this paper, I have been moved to defend public broadcasting against regular right-wing attempts to defund it.
He’s also previously called for NPR and PBS to be defunded, apropos of nothing.
The US government has defunded one programme and left another that both document alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
This comes after Kiley previously introduced a bill to defund the project, and asked the Department of Transportation to initiate a probe.
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