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Example sentences for: bequest

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(Belatedly, in 1895, Harvard awarded him an honorary doctorate and was rewarded by the bequest of his Indian manuscripts and editions.)
It's that interaction with fiscal policy that has drawn economists' attention to bequest motives in recent years.
A bequest is a final opportunity to redistribute income among those you love the most; if most parents reject that opportunity, then it's pretty hard to see anything "familial" in using the tax system to redistribute income among strangers.
At bequest time, the strategic gift motive would evaporate, and the favored child would be favored no longer.
Parallel to the strategic bequest motive, we can hypothesize a "strategic gift motive" that operates while the parents are still alive.