| 单词 | endowment |
| 释义 | endowment (ɪndaʊmənt ) Word forms: endowments 1. countable noun An endowment is a gift of money that is made to an institution or community in order to provide it with an annual income. The company revived the finances of the Oxford Union with a generous £1m endowment. ...the National Endowment for the Arts. Synonyms: provision, fund, funding, award 2. countable noun If someone has an endowment of a particular quality or ability, they possess it naturally. [formal] 3. countable noun [usually NOUN noun] In finance, an endowment policy or mortgage is an insurance policy or mortgage which you pay towards each month and which should then provide you with enough money to pay for your house at the end of a fixed period. [British] Collocations: endowment effect Behavioural economists call this the endowment effect; we overvalue things we already own, use or have committed to, and the when someone puts in a low offer. Times,Sunday Times However, this assumption has been shown in repeated experiments to be incorrect because of the endowment effect. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Status quo bias interacts with other non-rational cognitive processes such as loss aversion, existence bias, endowment effect, longevity, mere exposure, and regret avoidance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The authors also ruled out the explanation that lack of experience with trading would lead to the endowment effect by conducting repeated markets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This argument, supported by empirical results over a series of experiments, explains the endowment effect simply. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The school wants to add to its endowment fund by selling hundreds of titles, covering horsemanship, botany, sermons, history, poetry and maps. Times,Sunday Times With an endowment fund of 250,000 already, he's got enough to subsidise one-third of pupils. Times, Sunday Times This included a 5 million endowment fund to be set aside for the cost of opening the property to the public. Times, Sunday Times Who controls the endowment fund? Christianity Today The museum has raised 30 million from charitable trusts and private donors and set 4 million aside as an endowment fund, but it still needs another 16 million. Times, Sunday Times It serves as a vehicle to raise private funds for the university, develop real estate, and manage endowment investments on behalf of the university. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, endowment investments have delivered mediocre returns in recent years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This board-approved spending policy must be based on the average market value of the endowment investments over the 12 quarters (or more) immediately preceding the calculation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An individual's natural endowment can be abilities, such as intelligence or strength, given at birth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The concept of capital as natural endowment distorts the real role of capital. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Besides her natural endowments, doubtless her afflictions add much; or rather have polished, refined and heightened what nature gave her. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Cooper had great natural endowments of person and voice, but did not excel as a student. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For just as all natural endowments serve to further impiety in the godless, so they serve to further salvation in the godly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 捐赠基金 Japanese: 基金 |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147115条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。