endowment fund

Other forms: endowment funds

Definitions of endowment fund
  1. noun
    the capital that provides income for an institution
    synonyms: endowment
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    types:
    patrimony
    a church endowment
    chantry
    an endowment for the singing of Masses
    type of:
    capital
    wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
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