endowment insurance
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of endowment insurance
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
Example Sentences
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"When a person has no medical insurance, unemployment insurance or endowment insurance, how can that person dare spend all their money?" said Tang Jun, a sociology researcher with the China Academy of Social Sciences.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2010
When issued as endowment insurance policies in 1925.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adjusted Service Compensation Certificates are in the nature of endowment insurance policies payable 20 years after application or upon death.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the remaining soldiers there will be given the equivalent of a paid-up 20-year endowment insurance policy for the amount of the adjusted service credit plus 25%, with interest of 4% compounded annually.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many persons are attracted to endowment insurance by the oft expressed thought that "you don't have to die to beat it."
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter
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