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.

Recent Examples on the Web

Among them was a Washington think tank that caused a stir with a paper that proposed capping annual Social Security benefits at $100,000 to shore up the retirement trust fund. — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026

To be sure, Social Security's trust fund is six years away from becoming insolvent, at which point the 70 million people who receive monthly benefits could see a 22% cut to their payments. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026

Beyond the technology issues, the SSA is projected to exhaust its retirement trust fund in less than a decade, which could require benefit cuts to millions of Americans. — Hugh Son, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026

The county also wants to waive a requirement to keep at least $10 million in reserves in EEL’s trust fund. — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1738, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for trust fund

• fecund
• refund
• rotund
• secund
• and
• bund
• gunned
• hund
• mund
• shunned
• stunned

Legal Definition

trust fund

see also:

fund sense 1