endowment fund

1. 1.

   the capital that provides income for an institution

   Synonymsendowment

   Broadercapital

   Narrowerpatrimonychantry

Questions about endowment fund

What does endowment fund mean?

endowment fund means "the capital that provides income for an institution".

What is another word for endowment fund?

Close synonyms include endowment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is endowment fund a common word?

endowment fund is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.