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defund

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de·fund  (d-fnd)
tr.v. de·fund·ed, de·fund·ing, de·funds
To stop the flow of funds to: "Some days, they wake up with a burning desire to defund the Public Broadcasting System and the National Endowment for the Arts" (Joe Conason).


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One stated mission--already successful on some campuses--is to defund gay organizations.
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Looming in the congressional backwoods is the attempt to defund UNRWA, now that it has done its job of paying the welfare and education costs that, under the Geneva Convention, Israel should have borne when it was occupying Gaza, instead of turning it into a self-governing prison camp.
 
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