ENDOWMENT


Meaning of ENDOWMENT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

endowment policy

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

genetic

The basic similarity between cells refers not only to their general plan but also to their genetic endowment .

The offspring, however, are slightly different from one another in genetic endowment .

This set of preoccupations led the ethologists to assume a more complex and extensive set of genetic endowments underlying behaviour.

natural

A number of variations were seen in terms of population size, natural resource endowment , and current levels of development. 3.

The state of California includes among its natural endowments an unusual variety of valuable marine mammals.

The more technically advanced agriculture becomes, the smaller is its dependency on natural endowments .

His natural endowment consists of a particular range of capacities: physical strength, mobility, vision, hearing, intellect and so forth.

A natural endowment approach to equity would direct policy towards the gifted, who are better able to benefit from the policy.

■ NOUN

factor

This will presumably happen if countries are sufficiently similar in relative factor endowments and if economies of scale are sufficiently important.

Obviously in such a case predicting trade from factor endowments will be much more complex than in our simpler cases.

In particular, we will relate the share of intraindustry trade to cross-country differences in relative factor endowments and relative country size.

In between these extremes the intraindustry share is increasing in similarity of relative factor endowments , and it depends on country size.

The curves in the figure describe combinations of factor endowments at which the share of intraindustry trade is constant.

Since all countries will face the same implicit prices, differences in relative production can be predicted from factor endowments .

The alternative case where free entry restores standard comparative advantage is when factor endowments are sufficiently similar to permit factor price equalization.

The reason is that the distribution of imperfectly competitive firms across countries can now shift to accommodate differences in factor endowments .

fund

The money would be used to set up endowment funds for individual universities.

Deficits questioned Kaplan also objects to endowment funds being used to cover operating deficits.

The endowment fund for such masses was enormous and in the thirteenth century some system of regulation was required.

The rest will be made up by endowment funds , grants, government subsidies and ... by Elie Borowski.

mortgage

Loan secured by endowment mortgage , minimum age 20 years.

The Bristol &038; West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage .

And the Financial Ombudsman Service this week published a briefing note for firms handling endowment mortgage complaints.

I know that's the general idea of an endowment mortgage .

Pension Mortgage Similar to an endowment mortgage in that you pay interest only to the lender.

policy

Popular options are repayment linked to either an endowment policy or a pension plan.

So this week we highlight the key elements of a typical mortgage endowment policy statement.

By comparison, an Equitable Life 10-year endowment policy , with monthly premiums of £30, would have produced about £8,399.

Each year the authoritative magazine Money Management evaluates with-profits endowment policies taken out 10, 15 and 25 years ago.

This may, for instance, be in the form of an endowment policy or a mortgage payment protection plan.

The other method is to take out an endowment policy in both names.

Sales of traditional industrial life insurance policies plunged by half, but there has been a growth in endowment policies.

■ VERB

sell

He had an interesting collection of nineteenth-century pictures and a house in Richmond which he sold to provide the endowment .

In the late Eighties and early Nineties four out of five mortgages sold were of the endowment variety.

It's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage.

take

The other method is to take out an endowment policy in both names.

She's my only daughter and I took out an endowment for her at birth in preparation for this.

One way of doing this is by taking a unit-linked endowment .

You can take your endowment loan with you when you move, topping up the policy to cover the extra amount.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the island's natural endowments of white sandy beaches and clean water

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A Taking out an endowment on a joint mortgage can be done in one of two ways.

He left money for the poor and the sick, and an endowment of £20 a year for Bridgnorth School.

In between these extremes the intraindustry share is increasing in similarity of relative factor endowments, and it depends on country size.

In particular, we will relate the share of intraindustry trade to cross-country differences in relative factor endowments and relative country size.

It came with no endowment to meet the cost of conversion.

The state of California includes among its natural endowments an unusual variety of valuable marine mammals.

This will presumably happen if countries are sufficiently similar in relative factor endowments and if economies of scale are sufficiently important.

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