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index fund

a mutual fund that invests in the stocks used to compute a particular stock-market index, thus tying its performance to that index

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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