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Meaning of defund | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
/diːˈfʌnd/

Definitions

To cancel funding for.

US, transitive

Examples

“Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?”
“However, when Congress has attempted to defund a presidential agency, presidents have responded by creating new agencies to perform similar functions.”
“"It has me concerned that this religiously-powered anti-access anti-person campaign has succeeded in a small town in America already," Chrastka told Motherboard. "The idea that there is a breakdown in the respect that we used to have in America for the separation of church and state and a rise of a political perspective that wants to essentially break government, defund education, approach issues around the rights of individual humans as if it was a criminalization campaign... this is a troubling moment and a signal for the rest of America to wake up."”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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