[, ]money that is given to a school, a college or another institution to provide it with an income; the act of giving this money捐款；捐赠；资助；赞助◆The university has a $10.5 billion endowment fund.这个大学有 105 亿元的捐赠基金。◆a fund for the endowment of the performing arts赞助表演艺术的基金 (; ) [] a type of investment that you can buy from an insurance company in which you make regular payments over a period of time, or until you die, after which the company pays out an amount of money人寿保险；养老保险◆to buy/sell an endowment购买／出售人寿保险◆Final payouts on 25-year endowment policies have fallen by 9 per cent in the past year.25 年期的人寿保险单的最终赔付额在过去一年里已下降了 9%。