ENDOWMENT FUND

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The capital that provides income for an institution

Synonyms:

endowment; endowment fund

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("endowment fund" is a kind of...):

capital (wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "endowment fund"):

patrimony (a church endowment)

chantry (an endowment for the singing of Masses)