meaning of endowment
1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.
3. That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
4. the act of endowing with a permanent source of income; "his generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of
">time"
Related Words
endowment | endowment fund | endowment insurance |
