Endowment may refer to:
Finance
*
Financial endowment
A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of Financial instrument, financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to Donor intent, the will of its fo ...
, pertaining to funds or property donated to institutions or individuals (e.g., college endowment)
*
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 (usually Low-Cost) endowment policies. The phrase "endowment mortgage" is used mainly in the United Kingdom by l ...
, a mortgage to be repaid by an endowment policy
*
Endowment policy
An endowment policy is a life insurance contract designed to pay a lump sum after a specific term (on its 'maturity') or on death
Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living ...
, a type of life insurance policy
*A synonym for
budget constraint
In economics, a budget constraint represents all the combinations of goods and services that a consumer may purchase given current prices within their given income. Consumer theory uses the concepts of a budget constraint and a preference map ...
, the total funds available for spending
Economics
*
Endowment effect
In psychology and behavioral economics, the endowment effect, also known as divestiture aversion, is the finding that people are more likely to retain an object they own than acquire that same object when they do not own it. The endowment theory ca ...
, a cognitive bias
* Endowment, a term used for
land reclamation
Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new Terrestrial ecoregion, land from oceans, list of seas, seas, Stream bed, riverbeds or lake ...
*
Endowment of natural or other resources that can become capital by the process of production
*
Factor endowment
A factor endowment, in economics, is commonly understood to be the amount of land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship that a country possesses and can exploit for manufacturing. Countries with a large endowment of resources
''Resource'' refe ...
Other
*
Endowment (philosophy)
Endowment is a concept in philosophy that refers to human capacities and abilities which can be naturally or socially acquired. Natural endowment is biologically analysed. It is examined through individual genes or inborn abilities. Social endowme ...
; as a philosophical term
*
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 the ordinances performed in Latter Day Saint temples. The purpose and meaning of the endowment varied during the li ...
; a temple ceremony that confers heavenly priesthood power in Mormon theology
*
Endowment (Mormonism)
In Mormonism, the endowment is a two-part ordinance designed for participants to become kings, queens, priests, and priestesses in the afterlife. As part of the first ceremony, participants take part in a scripted reenactment of the Biblic ...
* A term for when one person's traits are magically transferred to another in the
Runelords saga
{{disambig