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SPENDTHRIFT TRUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spendthrift trust mean? 

SPENDTHRIFT TRUST (noun)
  The noun SPENDTHRIFT TRUST has 1 sense:

1. a trust created to maintain a beneficiary but to be secure against the beneficiary's improvidenceplay

  Familiarity information: SPENDTHRIFT TRUST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPENDTHRIFT TRUST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A trust created to maintain a beneficiary but to be secure against the beneficiary's improvidence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("spendthrift trust" is a kind of...):

trust (something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary))


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