endowment

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈdaʊmənt/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    Money or property given to support an organization or cause.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Endowment assurance or pure endowment.

Examples

  • The university's endowment grew 10% in the last year alone.

  • The university's endowment has decreased steadily over the last ten years.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.

  2. Something with which a person or thing is endowed.

  3. A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.

More examples

In context

  • We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

  • I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been consid...

  • Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, M...

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Origin

noun

From Middle English endowement; equivalent to endow + -ment.