endowment

n.

1. The act of endowing.
2. Funds or property donated to an institution, individual, or group as a source of income.
3. A natural gift, ability, or quality.

Assets, funds, or property donated to an institution, individual, or group as a source of income.

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An endowment is basically a charitable gift, such as donating stocks to the United Way or donating funds to a university library.

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Permanent fund of Property or money bestowed upon an institution or a person, the income from which is used to serve the specific purpose for which the gift was intended.

n

Definition: large gift
Antonyms: loss, receipt

n

Definition: personal talent, ability
Antonyms: drawback, inability, weakness

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This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

A transfer, generally as a gift, of money or property to an institution for a particular purpose. The bestowal of money as a permanent fund, the income of which is to be used for the benefit of a charity, college, or other institution.

A classic example of an endowment is money collected in a fund by a college. The college invests the endowment so that a regular amount of income is earned for the school. Typically, the monies for the endowment are derived from donations by alumni of the college.

Often, an endowment is designed to support a particular activity, such as the construction of a new wing by a hospital. Each donor sets up an endowment fund sufficiently large to earn income to pay the expenses of one room or a different part of the wing, such as a library.

The Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act (7A U.L.A. 233 [West Supp. 1992]), which was first created in 1972 and has since been adopted as law in many states, regulates spending and investment decisions related to such endowments.

The term endowment is also used to describe the act of putting aside the amount of property that a wife is lawfully due to inherit from her spouse. At common law, a woman was "endowed at the church door," upon marriage, when she acquired her dower right — the right to use one-third of her husband's land upon his death for the remainder of her life.

IN BRIEF: The giving of a permanent fund for support. Also: Someone's natural talent.

Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment. — Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894).

Dansk (Danish)
n. - talenter, livsforsikring, kapitalforsikring, donation

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    lån i fast ejendom, der tilbagebetales via livsforsikringsordning
• endowment policy    kapitalforsikringspolice

Nederlands (Dutch)
gave, subsidie, begiftiging

Français (French)
n. - dotation, fondation

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    hypothèque liée à une assurance vie
• endowment policy    assurance à capital différé

Deutsch (German)
n. - Stiftung, Begabung

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    Lebensversicherung mit Ratenzahlung
• endowment policy    Lebensversicherung mit Ratenzahlung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χάρισμα, δωρεά, επιχορήγηση

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    στεγαστικό δάνειο που εξοφλείται από ασφάλεια ζωής
• endowment policy    (οικον.) προθεσμιακό ασφαλιστήριο (ζωής)

Italiano (Italian)
dono

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    ipoteca
• endowment policy    polizza mista

Português (Portuguese)
n. - atributo (m)

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    hipoteca (f) dotal (Fin.)
• endowment policy    apólice (f) dotal

Русский (Russian)
дарование, талант

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    страхование-вклад
• endowment policy    ссуда-вклад

Español (Spanish)
n. - talento, don, dote, donación

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    hipoteca avalada por un seguro de vida
• endowment policy    póliza mixta o dotal

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - donation, donerande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
捐助, 才能, 天赋

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    人寿保险抵押
• endowment policy    人寿保险单

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 捐助, 才能, 天賦

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    人壽保險抵押
• endowment policy    人壽保險單

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 기부, 재능

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 贈与, 基本財産, 資性, 寄付, 基金

idioms:

• endowment mortgage    養老抵当
• endowment policy    養老保険証券

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) موهبه طبيعيه, وقف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תרומה, כישרון, הקדשה, נכס שבא כתרומה‬

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