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life annuity

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noun

Insurance.
  1. any annuity that is contingent upon the survival of the annuitant or annuitants, especially an annuity that terminates with the death of a single annuitant.


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However, your parents may also have set up a life annuity.

From Salon Mar. 24, 2026

Fortunately, most U.S. investors have access to one life annuity that is actually adjusted for inflation: Social Security.

From MarketWatch Mar. 24, 2026

Some of the year's novelists managed, with the help of book clubs and cinemagnates, to earn a life annuity with a single book.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah! you put your money into a life annuity, old scoundrel; and had you not daughters?

From Father Goriot by Marriage, Ellen

A life annuity, to cease in any event after a certain term of years, is called a temporary annuity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

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