trust fund

noun

: property (such as money or securities) settled or held in trust

Examples of trust fund in a Sentence

She paid for college out of a trust fund set up for her by her grandfather.
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Any excess that is not used is kept in a dedicated trust funds: the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund and the Disability Insurance trust fund. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025 Cuts may have minimal impact on trust funds Under the Trump administration, Social Security also plans to consolidate its geographic footprint to four regions down from 10 regional offices, the agency said on Friday. Lorie Konish, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025 Murray said one way to address the problem would be to have each municipality in the county create its own local housing trust fund, identifying annual funding sources specifically for affordable housing. Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025 The Social Security Administration makes a smaller number of payments to dependents and widowed survivors of those retirees, and to disabled workers and their dependents under a different trust fund. Emily Badger, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trust fund

Word History

First Known Use

1738, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of trust fund was in 1738

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“Trust fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trust%20fund. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

Legal Definition

trust fund

see fund sense 1

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