Another word for endowment | Synonyms for endowment

Another word for endowment

endowment Synonyms

endowment

n.

A gift
donation, grant, bounty, award; see gift 1.
A human quality or special capacity
talent, gift, qualification; see ability 1.
That which supplies perpetual support
benefit, provision, bequest, grant, pension, stipend, legacy, inheritance, subsidy, revenue, trust, subvention, dispensation, bestowal, nest egg*.
The act of providing perpetual support
funding, subsidizing, providing an endowment for, setting up, supporting, giving money to, giving money for, establishing, underwriting, granting in perpetuity; see also establishing 1, giving.

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In 1909 the endowment was about $1,389,600, and the school property was valued at about $1,117,660.
Distributed large sums in charity, and at his own charges placed costly astronomical instruments in the Vatican observatory, providing also accommodation and endowment for a staff of officials.
It culminated in 1864, when the country clergy, provoked by the final acquittal of the essayists, had voted in convocation against the endowment of the Greek chair.
One conspicuous feature of the Bosnian land-system is the Moslem Vakuf, or ecclesiastical property, consisting of estates dedicated to such charitable purposes as poor-relief, and the endowment of mosques, schools, hospitals, cemeteries and baths.
Campbell, a Belfast merchant, who left 200,000 for the building and endowment of a public school.

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