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endowment
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural endowments
plural endowments
Learner's definition of ENDOWMENT
1
a [count] : a large amount of money that has been given to a school, hospital, etc., and that is used to pay for its creation and continuing support捐款
- The hospital's endowment was established by a local family.这家医院的捐款是由当地的一个家庭发起的。
- The college has a large endowment.这所学院得到一大笔捐款。
- an endowment fund捐赠基金
b : the act of providing money to create or support a school, organization, etc.捐款，捐赠，资助（行为）
[noncount]
- the endowment of a hospital wing给医院建一座翼楼的捐赠
[count]
- generous endowments慷慨捐赠
2
[count] : a person's natural ability or talent天赋；天资
- an athlete's physical endowments运动员的身体天赋
endowment
noun
en·dow·ment in-ˈdau̇-mənt 
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Example Sentences
The hospital's endowment was established by a local family. The college has a large endowment. the endowment of a hospital wing
Recent Examples on the Web More law schools are following suit: In 2021, Harvard Law School's Animal Law and Policy program received a $10 million endowment. 
Hope Corrigan | The New York Times, The Week, 31 Aug. 2022 In honor of its late CEO, who died last year, the company's J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation is providing a $20 million endowment to create a hospitality leadership training center at Howard University, a historically Black college. Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022 In 1998, supporters of City formed the Triple Aught Foundation, a nonprofit that oversees the project and has built a nearly $30 million endowment for it. Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022 More law schools are following suit: In 2021, Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy program received a $10 million endowment. BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022 More law schools are following suit: In 2021, Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy program received a $10 million endowment. New York Times, 29 July 2022 The group killed by silence a considerable effort to make permanent its two-year suspension of its rule barring art-for-cash raids of the kind tried by the BMA and actually done by the Met, a museum flush with a $4 billion endowment. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022 The proceeds were put toward the opera company’s once-meager endowment, which was then named for Mrs. Casey’s late husband. Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022 Jacob’s Pillow now has an endowment to commission a new work each season. Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2021 See More
Hope Corrigan | The New York Times, The Week, 31 Aug. 2022 In honor of its late CEO, who died last year, the company's J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation is providing a $20 million endowment to create a hospitality leadership training center at Howard University, a historically Black college. Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022 In 1998, supporters of City formed the Triple Aught Foundation, a nonprofit that oversees the project and has built a nearly $30 million endowment for it. Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022 More law schools are following suit: In 2021, Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy program received a $10 million endowment. BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022 More law schools are following suit: In 2021, Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy program received a $10 million endowment. New York Times, 29 July 2022 The group killed by silence a considerable effort to make permanent its two-year suspension of its rule barring art-for-cash raids of the kind tried by the BMA and actually done by the Met, a museum flush with a $4 billion endowment. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022 The proceeds were put toward the opera company’s once-meager endowment, which was then named for Mrs. Casey’s late husband. Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022 Jacob’s Pillow now has an endowment to commission a new work each season. Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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