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third-person singular simple present defunds, present participle defunding, simple past and past participle defunded
(transitive, chiefly US) To cancel funding for. quotations examples
Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?
1996, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement
However, when Congress has attempted to defund a presidential agency, presidents have responded by creating new agencies to perform similar functions.
2003, David E Lewis, Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design
"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."
2022 August 5, Claire Woodcock, “This Town Voted To Defund its Public Library After it Included LGBTQ+ Books”, in Vice.com, archived from the original on 11 December 2022