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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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Most prominently, the SSA is currently facing a depletion of its trust funds, which help pay for benefits along with tax revenue.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
That’s what people think of as the trust fund becoming exhausted.
—Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
Revenue from those taxes helps to shore up the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, which are dwindling.
—Tribune News Service, Sun Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
Ending taxes on Social Security benefits would move the insolvency date of Social Security’s trust fund closer by over one year, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1738, in the meaning defined above
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“Trust fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trust%20fund. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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trust fund
see fund sense 1
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