life insurance

noun

insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.

Origin of life insurance

First recorded in 1800–10

Words nearby life insurance

life form, life guards, life history, life imprisonment, life instinct, life insurance, life interest, life is short; art is long, life is too short, life jacket, life lesson

Example sentences from the Web for life insurance

Some, like Justice Kennedy, are conservative investors and put all their money into life-insurance policies.

The Supreme Court’s Health-Care Stock Problem |Peter Schweizer |March 28, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
As the corpses piled up, the life-insurance policies paid out.

The Granny Faked Funeral Case |Christine Pelisek |January 18, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
That the life-insurance actuaries do not recognize this truth is a shame to their perception.

Journeys to Bagdad |Charles S. Brooks
Later he was talking over the lobster law with Jim, and life-insurance with Lane.

Jim Spurling, Fisherman |Albert Walter Tolman

When I first touched on the life-insurance companies they laughed.

Frenzied Finance |Thomas W. Lawson
It was at about this time that I applied for a life-insurance policy, and was "turned down" by the examiners as a "poor risk."

Fletcherism |Horace Fletcher
Where so many died and risked their lives a life-insurance office has reopened.

The Challenge of the Dead |Stephen Graham

British Dictionary definitions for life insurance

life insurance

noun

another name for life assurance

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life insurance

noun

Origin of life insurance

Words nearby life insurance

Example sentences from the Web for life insurance

British Dictionary definitions for life insurance

noun

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

life insurance

noun

Origin of life insurance

Words nearby life insurance

Example sentences from the Web for life insurance

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British Dictionary definitions for life insurance