- Look up
endowment or
endow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Endowment may
refer to:
Financial endowment,
pertaining to
funds or
property donated to...
- A
financial endowment is a
legal structure for managing, and in many
cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or
other investments...
- Many
colleges and
universities in the
United States maintain a
financial endowment consisting of ****ets that are
invested in
financial securities, real estate...
- A
factor endowment, in economics, is
commonly understood to be the
amount of land, labor, capital, and
entrepreneurship that a
country possesses and can...
- In
psychology and
behavioral economics, the
endowment effect, also
known as
divestiture aversion, is the
finding that
people are more
likely to retain...
-
Endowment is a
concept in
philosophy that
refers to
human capacities and
abilities which can be
naturally or
socially acquired.
Natural endowment is biologically...
- In Mormonism, the
endowment is a two-part
ordinance (ceremony)
designed for parti****nts to
become kings, queens, priests, and
priestesses in the afterlife...
- An
endowment policy is a life
insurance contract designed to pay a lump sum
after a
specific term (on its 'maturity') or on death.
These are long-term...
- over 700
staff and contractors, with net ****ets of $255
million and an
endowment which has surp****ed $100 million.
Jimmy Wales and
Larry Sanger founded...
- The
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an
independent agency of the
United States federal government that
offers support and
funding for projects...
