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endowment

/en-dou-muhnt/US // ɛnˈdaʊ mənt //UK // (ɪnˈdaʊmənt) //

捐赠,拨款,禀赋,捐赠品

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of endowing.
    • : the property, funds, etc., with which an institution or person is endowed.
    • : Usually endowments. an attribute of mind or body; a gift of nature.

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Examples

  • The campus this year also eliminated public fossil fuel investments from its endowment.

  • “What was creative was figuring out a way to increase our giving while not diminishing the current value of our endowment,” Ford Foundation president Darren Walker tells Fortune.

  • Foundations, family offices, college endowments, pension funds, and insurance companies should all, they say, wield their power to change the face of corporate America and Silicon Valley.

  • All we can say is that the average genetic endowment of a group of dogs bred in exactly the same way as Dax will come out to be 56% husky and 44% Pomeranian.

  • The vote in Maryland came as both public and private HBCUs nationwide have been struggling with uncertain federal funding, sputtering enrollment, and relatively small endowments.

  • The schools endowment grew from $114 million to $472 million.

  • The National Endowment for the Arts reports that more than half of all Americans are still reading—and even talking about books.

  • Brock-Broido has been honored with two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship.

  • He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

  • The fund would then disburse the money based on a formula, providing regular payments until the endowment is exhausted.

  • But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.

  • She was a woman of great intellectual endowment, with highly cultivated literary tastes.

  • This endowment would give the schools consequence and character, and would correct and elevate the standard of education.

  • At its endowment Henry laid on the altar the famous "cornu eburneum," now lost.

  • That we have groped for the way of right conduct and agonized over the soul betokens our spiritual endowment.