What does 'taxpayer funded' mean?
Huckfelt says it is important for people to experience the parks. After all, he said, “We own these parks…they’re taxpayer funded.”
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The phrase taxpayer-funded means funded by taxpayers (people who pay taxes). It's simple as that. I think the fact that it was not properly hyphenated is what threw you off. More generally, the compound adjective something-funded means funded by a specified entity. Here are a few examples:
state-funded means funded by the state
government-funded means funded by the government
US-funded means funded by the US
answered Sep 12, 2018 at 7:12
The pattern there is noun + past participle of a VERB.
The paraphrase is VERBed by NOUN(s) [sometimes pluralized].
The class elections were student-run. [run by students]
The medicine was FDA-approved. [approved by the FDA]
The dog was flea-bitten [bitten by fleas]
The handle of the tool was rubber-coated. [coated by rubber]
