Endowment
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Endowment may refer to many things:
Finance
- Financial endowment, pertaining to funds or property donated to institutions or individuals (e.g., college endowment)
- Endowment mortgage, a mortgage to be repaid by an endowment policy
- Endowment policy, a type of life insurance policy
- A synonym for budget constraint, the total funds available for spending
Economics
- Endowment effect, a cognitive bias
- Endowment, a term used for land reclamation
- Endowment of natural or other resources that can become capital by the process of production
Other
- Endowment (philosophy); as a philosophical term
- Endowment (Latter Day Saints); a temple ceremony that confers heavenly priesthood power in Mormon theology
- A term for when one person's traits are magically transferred to another in the Runelords saga
- Endowment has frequently been used to express the size of a woman's breasts or a man's genitals
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