Word: fundholding
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: fund
hol
ding
Definition: A former system of state funding of general practitioners in which they were allocated a budget for services by the local hospital.
Morphemes:
Affix: fund
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: An organization managing such money.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: fundus
Language: la
Decoded: fundus
PoS: Noun
Meaning: an authority
Affix: hold
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Something reserved or kept.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.