endowment insurance

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noun

life insurance providing for the payment of a stated sum to the insured if he or she lives beyond the maturity date of the policy, or to a beneficiary if the insured dies before that date.

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Origin of endowment insurance

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Words nearby endowment insurance

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Example sentences from the Web for endowment insurance

His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
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His father, a writer, and his mother, who worked in insurance, were flawless.
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She freely admits that she was using both to self-medicate after she lost her insurance.
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More importantly, Medicaid served as a secondary insurance to his primary insurance.
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Most of them have insurance, and only a small percentage face catastrophic illness.
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But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.
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He has come to believe in such things as old age pensions and national insurance.
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Suppose one goes to the office of a general insurance agent to get insurance on his home.
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She was a woman of great intellectual endowment, with highly cultivated literary tastes.
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Even the purest selfishness would dictate a policy of social insurance.
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