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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
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital that provides income for an institution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
endowment; endowment fund
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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