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ENDOWMENT FUND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital that provides income for an institution
Synonyms:
endowment; endowment fund
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
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)
