Finance

• Financial endowment
  Financial endowment
  A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution. The total value of an institution's investments is often referred to as the institution's endowment and is typically organized as a public charity, private foundation, or trust....
  
  , relating to funds or property donated to institutions or individuals (e.g., college endowment)
• Endowment mortgage
  Endowment mortgage
  An endowment mortgage is a mortgage loan arranged on an interest-only basis where the capital is intended to be repaid by one or more endowment policies. The phrase endowment mortgage is used mainly in the United Kingdom by lenders and consumers to refer to this arrangement and is not a legal...
  
  , a mortgage to be repaid by an endowment policy
• Endowment policy
  Endowment policy
  An endowment policy is a life insurance contract designed to pay a lump sum after a specified term or on death. Typical maturities are ten, fifteen or twenty years up to a certain age limit...
  
  , a type of life insurance policy
• A synonym for budget constraint
  Budget constraint
  A budget constraint represents the combinations of goods and services that a consumer can purchase given current prices with his or her income. Consumer theory uses the concepts of a budget constraint and a preference map to analyze consumer choices...
  
  , the total funds available for spending

Other

• Endowment (philosophy)
  Endowment (Philosophy)
  Endowment refers to the innate capacities of an individual, group, or institution. An individual's "natural endowment" can be abilities, such as intelligence or strength, given at birth. An individual's "social endowment" can be abilities attributed to the individual's position within a social...
  
  ; as a philosophical term
• Endowment (Latter Day Saints)
  Endowment (Latter Day Saints)
  In the theology of the Latter Day Saint movement, an endowment refers to a gift of "power from on high", typically associated with Latter Day Saint temples. The purpose and meaning of the endowment varied during the life of movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr...
  
  ; a temple ceremony that confers heavenly priesthood power in Mormon theology
• A term for when one person's traits are given to another in the Magic (Runelords)
  Magic (Runelords)
  The Runelords is a fantasy novel series written by David Farland. The series is characterized by magic systems integral to the whole structure of human society. These two systems are the magic of the elements and of endowments.-Runes:...
  
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• Endowment can also be a term used for reclaimed land
  Land reclamation
  Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, is the process to create new land from sea or riverbeds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamation ground or landfill.- Habitation :...
  
  
• Endowment has frequently been used to express the size of a womans breasts or a mans Genitals
• Endowment effect
  Endowment effect
  In behavioral economics, the endowment effect is a hypothesis that people value a good or service more once their property right to it has been established. In other words, people place a higher value on objects they own than objects that they do not...
  
   is a cognitive bias
  Cognitive bias
  A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations. Implicit in the concept of a "pattern of deviation" is a standard of comparison; this may be the judgment of people outside those particular situations, or may be a set of independently verifiable...