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Definition: Trust Fund |
Trust FundNoun1. A fund held in trust. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Finance | An amount of capital which a person (the trustor) places in custody of a trustee to be administered for the benefit of another (the beneficiary). (references) |
Statistics | A state fund to receive and disburse unemployment insurance funds. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Trust Fund |
| Specialty definitions using "trust fund": Cost Recovery ♦ National Priorities List ♦ Preferred Provider Organizations ♦ Rural Community Advancement Program, Rural Development Trust Fund ♦ Troposhpere ♦ UNCLAIMED PROPERTY OFFICER. (references) |
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Screenplays | Sure, they all love you until they go after your trust fund like a pack of rabid wolves! (Spider-Man; writing credit: Stan Lee; Steve Ditko) | |
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Business | The Bank of Mexico also manages a bank trust fund called FOBAPROA to which all commercial banks are required to contribute. (references) | |
The Federal Reserve Bank has managed this trust fund on behalf of the Thai government, primarily by investing in U.S. treasury securities. (references) | ||
Under this program, the Thai government utilizes a military trust fund account opened at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to buy weapons from the United States. (references) | ||
Economic History | Nigeria | However, extensive road repairs and construction by the parastatal Petroleum Trust Fund have greatly improved many major interurban routes. (references) |
Finland | It is financed in part from a trust fund established in 1976 from Finland's final repayment of a U.S. loan made in the aftermath of World War I. (references) | |
Palau | Palau has created a trust fund to be drawn upon after the cessation of Compact grants, the value of which had grown to $140 million by the beginning of 2000. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | The Government also has created an indigenous land fund, which is a trust fund that enables indigenous people to purchase land for their use. (references) |
Political Economy | Tuvalu | With donor assistance, Tuvalu has developed a well-managed trust fund, which is supplemented by significant annual payments for use of its international telephone-dialing prefix. (references) |
HONDURAS | Honduras also received special assistance from bilateral donors, mainly through the Central American Emergency Trust Fund (CAETF), which reduced its debt service payments to multilateral creditors. (references) | |
Political Rights | Tonga | During the year, the establishment of a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into a national trust fund account led to the September resignations of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Education from both their cabinet portfolios and from their positions as trustees of the account. (references) |
Trade | Tanzania | The bank belongs to the African Development Fund (ADF) and the Nigerian Trust Fund (NTF). The AFDB makes loans to development projects in 51 countries in Africa. (references) |
South Africa | The AfDB is comprised of three institutions: the African Development Bank (ADB), the African Development Fund (ADF), and the Nigerian Trust Fund (NTF). Collectively, these institutions are known as the AfDB or Bank Group. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Australia | The workers struck after Tri-Star management refused to accept a clause in a proposed enterprise agreement requiring contributions to Manusafe, a union-controlled trust fund established to safeguard employees' annual leave and long service leave entitlements. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Simple arithmetic warns all of us that the Social Security Trust Fund is headed for trouble. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In addition, the Congress must address the urgent funding problems of the highway trust fund, and the need to generate greater revenues. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The trust fund will start to phase out, eventually to disappear, and the excise taxes will then be turned over to the states. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We have all agreed to stabilize the Medicare Trust Fund. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
trust fund | 96 |
child trust fund | 28 |
wisconsin child support trust fund | 15 |
asbestos trust fund | 11 |
set up a trust fund | 6 |
trust fund recovery penalty | 6 |
trust fund accounting | 3 |
housing trust fund | 3 |
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special need trust fund | 2 |
health insurance trust fund | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "trust fund"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Trust Fund, forvaltningsfond. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Trustfonds, Beheersfonds, beheerfonds. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | työttömyyskassa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fonds fiduciaire, fonds en fiducie, fonds de la fiducie (trust money), caisse de fiducie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Trustfonds, Sonderfonds. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Trust Fund, ταμείο υπέρ αναπτυσσομένων χωρών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fondo fiduciario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 信託資金 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"たくしき". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tashtey barrantys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | usttray undfay Fundo Fiduciário. (various references) Fondo Fiduciario, fondo de fideicomisos. (various references) tröst fonu, vakıf fonu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-n-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: fundus, strunt. | |
-4 letters: dunts, durns, durst, funds, nurds, runts, strut, stunt, sturt, trust, tufts, turds, turfs, turns, tutus. | |
-5 letters: duns, dunt, durn, dust, fuds, fund, funs, furs, nurd, nuts, runs, runt, rust, ruts, stud, stun, surd, surf, tuft, tuns, turd, turf, turn, tuts, tutu, urds, urns, urus. | |
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