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词汇 bequest
释义 bequest
noun[ C ]
uk /bɪˈkwest/ us /bɪˈkwest/
the money or property belonging to someone that they say that, after their death, they wish to be given to other people: 遗赠,遗产
Her will included small bequests to her family, while most of her fortune went to charity.她在遗嘱中写明将一小部分遗产留给家人,大部分都捐给慈善机构。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inheriting & bequeathing
assign
beneficiary
bequeath
cadger
co-executor
co-heir
heir
heir apparent
heiress
heirless
heirloom
inherit
inheritance
legacy
patrimony
pond life
pond scum
primogeniture
probate
settle

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Gifts in the form of money

bequest | American Dictionary


bequest
noun[ C ]
us/bɪˈkwest/
the money or property that someone, after death, gives to someone else:
Her will included large bequests to charity.

bequest | Business English


bequest
noun[ C ]
 LAW formaluk /bɪˈkwest/us
money or property that someone has left to a person or organization in their will (= a document stating who will have your money and property after you die):
Her will included small bequests to her family, while most of her fortune went to charity.

Examples of bequest


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At age 6 nobody receives any bequests because the parent is at age 11 and is going to die for certain.
Higher persistence is associated with larger (absolute) tax elasticities, even if the model allows for altruistic bequests.
This is valid in the case where the couple's motivations for leaving a bequest are altruistic.
But this is not clear since younger individuals who receive bequests would have a lower demand for precautionary saving.
A longer life span yields smaller unintentional bequests and thus lowers the level of the young agents' wealth.
Agents differ in age, ability, earnings shocks, and inherited bequests.
As new medical technologies sent expenses on an upward spiral, small provincial hospitals, largely funded by small private bequests, could not keep up.
So how do people view assets in later life, particularly in relation to the issue of bequests?
In this case, the wealth of members of a dynasty at any instant can be interpreted as a bequest from preceding generations.
There is no bequest motive, labor supply is assumed to be exogenous and the individual is not permitted to borrow either stocks or bonds.
The core of the parish holding was an ancient bequest of 1618, but additional land was added in 1701, 1718, 1722, and 1727.
This implies that the levels of accidental bequests received by young agents in the short run are different from the long-run ones.
Other models are life cycle, intergenerational with retirement, uncertain lifetimes, accidental and deliberate bequests, as well as mixtures of these.
It is more difficult to measure the size of intended bequests relative to that of purely accidental ones, due to uncertainty about the life span.
The percentage of the population without bequests seems reasonable.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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