trust fund
Americannoun
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trust funds
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money, securities, property, etc., held in trust.
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a government fund administered separately from other funds and used for a specified purpose.
a highway trust fund.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of trust fund
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Social Security, in particular, is fully funded today by payroll taxes and interest on the program’s trust fund holdings of Treasury bonds, which have been purchased with payroll tax receipts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
She says she had been tasked with serving mashed potatoes and grapes to an African gray parrot who had its own trust fund.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
How to find out if you have a child trust fund?
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
However, the cost of the shortfall lies elsewhere: a missing trust fund.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
He'd had this crusty old grandfather he'd never met, from Germany, who'd left his unborn grandchild a trust fund with the proviso that he be named after the old man.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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