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bequest

noun as in something given in will

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But for the Orlando Museum of Art, which recently received a $1.8 million bequest from the estate of Margaret Young, that gift couldn’t have come at a better time.

The gift of digital detox that we thought Australia was giving our daughter has also become a revelatory bequest for us — her American parents and her older brother.

The biggest personal donation came from a bequest from Lord John Sainsbury, who left more than £10.2m to the Conservatives after his death.

From BBC

Although the museum has received far larger bequests, the gift, he said, is singular because it targets a single artist and presents his work in unusual depth.

None of the bequest was to be used for existing programs, nor was the Army to convert existing buildings.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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