mutual fund

noun

: an open-end investment company that invests money of its shareholders in a usually diversified group of securities of other corporations

Examples of mutual fund in a Sentence

She invested her money in a mutual fund.

Recent Examples on the Web

In the last few years, tokenization has expanded to include not just cash but also financial assets such as government bonds, equities, and mutual funds. — Gordon Liao, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2026

Even so, mutual funds and ETFs can be a way to gain some exposure to the pre-IPO world, with SpaceX, Anthropic and its rival OpenAI all recent examples. — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026

Their victims included hospital systems in Missouri and California, a bank in Rhode Island, a financial technology company in the United Kingdom, a mutual fund company in Massachusetts and a pet food company in Florida, according to court documents. — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026

Their $118 million operation bilked local investors, including the retirement fund of a Long Island fire department whose members thought its cash was being held in mutual funds and securities. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for mutual fund

• and
• bund
• gunned
• hund
• mund
• shunned
• stunned
• fecund
• refund
• rotund
• secund

Legal Definition

mutual fund

see also:

fund sense 2