endowment
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- noun
- /ɪnˈdaʊmənt/
- Formal
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dotación
- The foundation's endowment will help fund scientific research for many years to come.
- endowment fund
- donations and endowments
- grants and endowments
I think believing that it's our primary job is to try to do social good with the income we get from the endowment.
- I think believing that it's our primary job is to try to do social good with the income we get from the endowment.
- And then don't you know, they may have a significant endowment, but they treat their new hires and not just professors, but staff quite poorly.
- And so I would love to find, I actually have this dream of I want to want to have the money I need and I want to set it up in an endowment.
- And remember the difference between you and I is endowments, pension funds.
- And what Swenson has done is turn the Yale endowment into a huge number.
- So included some comments and recommendations related to endowment policy gift policy.
- I'd like to invest in your endowment, but I'd also like if my daughter got in.
- It's like the museum is about money, endowments, donors, prestige, power and fancy parties.
- So institutional investors, whether that's endowments, foundations, pension funds, you know, you name it, they're all kinds of, you know, insurance companies.
Examples
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Some very wealthy, very influential people have entrusted us, not only with the higher education of their children, but often with substantial endowments.
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I can't tell you, Mr. Peabody, how much this endowment would mean to the museum and to me personally.
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And where is the endowment check for the college?
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So I think they have the world's third largest endowment already.
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My investment group handles their endowment fund.
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Bishop's Hill needs an endowment, a new student body, a new faculty, and a new physical plant.
Fiction book (1999) -
Chase Collins comes to us with a brilliant academic record and his family trust has made a generous endowment to this institution.
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The money will be used to fund an endowment to ensure the long-term viability of each competition.
Academic text (2012) -
Win or lose, the Wayne Foundation pledges a one billion dollar donation to start a charitable endowment for public works.
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In 1924, the role of the Children's Museum expanded through an endowment by Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Worcester.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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Money that people give to an organization and keep to earn income for its work
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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Money that people give to an organization and keep to earn income for its work
- Specialized
Life insurance that pays a set amount after a fixed time or to your family if you die earlier
- Specialized
A policy where a college or organization has no permanent fund and relies on tuition and government money
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Etymology
The word endowment comes from the verb endow, made of en- 'in' and a root like dower 'gift', so it once meant 'putting a gift in'. That's why an endowment today is money or property given to a school, hospital, or group to provide a permanent source of income.