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Funds vs Dotation - What's the difference?

funds | dotation |

As nouns the difference between funds and dotation

is that funds is plural of lang=en while dotation is the act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

As a verb funds

is third-person singular of fund.

funds

English

Noun

(head)
  • Financial resources
    • I don't know if I have the funds for this.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fund)
    • ----

    dotation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
  • Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.
    • As to eleemosynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal visitors...
    (Webster 1913) ----