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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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
Augusta National recognizes Lee Elder and will endow two scholarships at a historically Black college in his name and cover its golf programs’ costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2020
It will endow a strength and conditioning complex in the Breslin Center, the basketball program’s campus home.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2015
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
Society will endow persons, not on a basis of salary, and enable them thereby to teach in their own way and their own time.
From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
