fundraisingn.
/ˈfʌndˌreɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfən(d)ˌreɪzɪŋ/ The action or activity of raising, or seeking to raise, money for a charity, cause, or other enterprise.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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1869 Queenslander 3 July 4/4 These Fenians are anxious to raise funds for the benefit of the ‘State prisoners’ lately released in Western Australia. That, at least, was the ostensible object of the proposed fund-raising scheme.
1869 Queensland Times 3 Aug. Discretion in promptly refusing to have anything to do with the aforesaid fund-raising.
1883 Lowell (Mass.) Weekly Sun 10 Nov. 4/1 We believe the Irish people..feel that they have now had enough of fund-raising, considering how often and generously they contributed to such undertakings during the past few years.
1940 Struct. Amer. Econ. (Nat. Resources Planning Board) ii. 39/1 The entire present contributory basis of the social security system could be reexamined with a view..to merging fund-raising for social security with fund raising for all other governmental purposes.
1959 Times 30 Dec. 9/1 A worldly young Rabbi who is more interested in fund-raising than in religious rites.
1970 New Yorker 14 Nov. 44/2 Marriage and fatherhood eventually nudged him into public relations and fund-raising.
2001 Courier Mar. 4/1 All fundraising and organising for the Tea Party is done by students.
Compounds
General attributive, as fundraising campaign, fundraising event, etc.
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1869 Queenslander 3 July 4/4 These Fenians are anxious to raise funds for the benefit of the ‘State prisoners’ lately released in Western Australia. That, at least, was the ostensible object of the proposed fund-raising scheme.
1885 Daily Evening Democrat (Shelbyville, Indiana) 21 Mar. 1/5 Congratulations over the success of the fund raising scheme and the campaign.
1904 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 22 May 7/1 Secretary S. B. Groner of the Y. M. C. A. said yesterday that he had no plans perfected for the fund-raising campaign which will be inaugurated this year.
1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xx. 224 Willy asked me to..write a fund-raising pamphlet about it.
1964 A. Wykes Gambling x. 242 The fund-raising potentials of the state lottery.
1986 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) 27 Oct. c8/1 Among the fundraising events have been dances, sales, dinners, and a dress-down day at the school.
1999 Gymnast Mar. 31/2 A Gala night with over 150 gymnasts and an audience of 400 kicked off the fundraising campaign.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- for example
- for excellency
- for execution
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- for fair
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- for fault of
- for favour
- for fear
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- for feeble
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