Real Dictionary

International Monetary Fund in American English
an international organization, established by the United Nations, to promote monetary cooperation, international trade, and exchange stability and to help equalize balance of payments by allowing members to draw from its fund
noun: an international organization that promotes the stabilization of the world's currencies and maintains a monetary pool from which member nations can draw in order to correct a deficit in their balance of payments: a specialized agency of the United Nations

International Monetary Fund in British English
noun: an international financial institution organized in 1945 to promote international trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies. A fund is maintained out of which member nations with temporary balance-of-payments deficits may make wit