natural endowment
- noun
- /ˈnæʧərəl ɪnˈdaʊmənt/
- Specialized
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recursos naturales
- The country's natural endowment of fertile soil and abundant water resources supports its agricultural industry.
So to some extent the natural endowment and other things will drive the local policy, will drive the energy mix.
- So to some extent the natural endowment and other things will drive the local policy, will drive the energy mix.
Examples
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Access to a rich natural endowment of minerals allows the region to thrive on mining and exports.
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Investors are often attracted to areas with a strong natural endowment of forests, which provide lucrative timber opportunities.
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So to some extent the natural endowment and other things will drive the local policy, will drive the energy mix.
Synonyms
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2.1
Things from nature that people use for energy, food, or money
Antonyms
How Resource-Rich
Surface Forms
Morphology
natural + endowment
The phrase is compositionally built—'natural' + 'endowment' can be interpreted as things endowed by nature (i.e., natural resources), so the core meaning is derivable from the parts. However, 'endowment' is abstract and polysemous (donation, innate gift, financial fund) and 'natural' has multiple senses, so a B1 learner may not immediately map this collocation to the specific economic sense without contextual clues.
Etymology
Natural endowment imagines a country's store of gifts from the land: natural means from the land and endowment means a supply or reserve. So it means 'the natural resources a country has'.