endowment
noun
Origin of endowment
Synonyms for endowment
Related Words for endowment
largess, funding, inheritance, revenue, grant, stipend, subsidy, fund, donation, pension, income, trust, bequest, gift, faculty, gratuity, legacy, presentation, stake, awardExamples from the Web for endowment
Contemporary Examples of endowment
The fund would then disburse the money based on a formula, providing regular payments until the endowment is exhausted.
And though Harvard has a $30.7 billion endowment, “there is no endowment dedicated to providing mental health services.”
She believes that with a $1.8 billion endowment behind it, the university can well afford to pay restitution for their failures.
And he discussed some recent and very real troubles, as its endowment was whittled down.
Harvard, for instance, reported a 2011 endowment of $31.7 billion—up from $25.5 billion in 2005.
Historical Examples of endowment
But is an endowment ever a blessing to the man who receives it?
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)John Morley
"It's there you are a fool," she said, moved actually now by his numbness to his own endowment.
The PrisonerAlice Brown
Immortal indeed, so long as sleep remains an endowment of humanity!
A Rent In A CloudCharles James Lever
Of the value of this endowment the Indian, with all his improvidence, had some notion.
Besides the building, an endowment of £8,000 in Consols was left by the founder.
Hammersmith, Fulham and PutneyGeraldine Edith Mitton