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Endowment fund   /ɛndˈaʊmənt fənd/   Listen
Endowment fund

noun
1.
The capital that provides income for an institution.  Synonym: endowment.






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"Endowment fund" Quotes from Famous Books



... this volume were written at various times during the last ten years for use in connexion with College Lectures, and a long holiday, for which I have to thank the Trustees of the Balliol College Endowment Fund, as well as the Master and Fellows of Balliol College, has enabled me to revise them and to furnish them with brief introductions and notes. Only those speeches are included which are generally admitted to be the work of Demosthenes, ...
— The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 • Demosthenes

... has not yet been duly named, and if anyone of those who may read this sketch will give $1,000 to be used as an endowment fund, the interest to be applied year by year as long as the school stands, we shall be glad to name this new hall after the giver, unless the name should happen to be too un-euphonious. Would not this beautiful hall be a fine monument ...
— The American Missionary, Volume 49, No. 3, March, 1895 • Various

... the institution at Tuskegee represents a value of L100,000, if we include the endowment fund; and the annual cost of training 1100 or more students is not less than L16,000. The work continues to expand, as must ever be the case with all healthy enterprises of the kind. Perhaps the most hopeful symptom of all is the ...
— From Slave to College President - Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington • Godfrey Holden Pike

... of the forces have united to destroy Wilson, who is the strongest man in the West. The bosses are all against him. They recently produced an application which he had made for a pension, under the Carnegie Endowment Fund for Teachers, which had been allowed to lie idle, unnoticed for a year or so after its rejection, but owing to campaign emergencies was produced, at this happy moment, to show that Wilson wanted a pension. As a Philadelphia poet whom you ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane



Words linked to "Endowment fund" :   capital, patrimony, endowment, chantry



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