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Most dictionaries (at least from a cursory Googling) disagree with you:

"prevent from continuing to receive funds."

"to stop providing money for something"

"To stop the flow of funds to"

"to withdraw financial support from"

"to deplete the financial resources of"

But Cambridge at least gives you your 2nd meaning as an alternate:

"to stop providing money or as much money to pay for something"

EDIT: Oof, and the Cambridge definition was changed sometime after Dec 2020 to give it that more broad definition:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201207142418/https://dictionar...




For more examples of the phenomenon you mention in your edit, compare definitions of the word "vaccine" from 5 years ago to today.




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