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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