endow
verb (used with object)
to provide with a permanent fund or source of income.
will endow
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future tenseof endow.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The funds will endow directors’ chairs for the African American, Chicano and American Indian studies centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Half will endow need-based scholarships, and the other $5 million will help Tougaloo students at Brown University, an Ivy League school in Rhode Island, Sandra Hodge, Tougaloo’s vice president of institutional advancement, told the newspaper.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
If Facebook accepts its rulings, as it has pledged to do, as well as the board’s broader guidance, the company will endow this obscure panel with a new kind of legitimacy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2021
The gift, announced last week, will endow three faculty chairs in the sciences, fund research grant proposals and support the creation of an environment initiative program center.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2012
If you love the country, which contains our kingdom, as the filbert-shell contains the kernel, I will endow you with power.
From The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal by Various
