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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But while current benefit payments remain the same, the trust funds that shore up benefit payments are scheduled to run dry in 2034. Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025 Should that money go into the decommissioning trust fund, or into customers’ pockets? Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 31 July 2025 The think tank’s new report projects that, unless Congress acts, Social Security’s main trust fund will be insolvent by the end of 2032, triggering automatic and painful benefit cuts for everyone relying on the program. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 July 2025 The One Big Beautiful addresses that problem head-on by redirecting revenues from unused COVID-era funds and creating new federal fees on electric vehicles to provide a fresh infusion of dollars into the trust fund. Rusty Plowman, Denver Post, 23 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for trust fund

Word History

First Known Use

1738, in the meaning defined above

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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 20 Aug. 2025.

Legal Definition

trust fund

see fund sense 1

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