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ENDOWMENT FUND

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Dictionary entry overview: What does endowment fund mean?

• ENDOWMENT FUND (noun)
The noun ENDOWMENT FUND has 1 sense:

1. the capital that provides income for an institution

Familiarity information: ENDOWMENT FUND used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ENDOWMENT FUND (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The capital that provides income for an institution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

endowment fund; endowment

Hypernyms ("endowment fund" is a kind of...):

capital (wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "endowment fund"):

patrimony (a church endowment)

chantry (an endowment for the singing of Masses)

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