trust fund

noun

1. money, securities, property, etc., held in trust.

2. a government fund administered separately from other funds and used for a specified purpose.

   a highway trust fund.

trust fund

noun

1. money, securities, etc, held in trust

Word History and Origins

Origin of trust fund¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Texas is putting in $100 million into their child-care system; Montana carved out a trust fund for early care and education; and Kentucky is making child care free.

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“Once these trust funds dry out, water bankruptcy is imminent.”

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“There’s no financial backers. We’re not trust fund kids and we don’t have a bunch of real estate properties making money that way,” Wilkerson said.

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As I wrote in 2005, when the idea of allowing Social Security to invest its trust fund in equities was under consideration again, the potential for conflicts of interest is inescapable.

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She’s got a trust fund; he’s doesn’t own a suit of his own, dressing rather in one passed down from a dead brother.

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