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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

The Governor and Council of the Hudson's Bay Company granted to Mr. Pritchard a life annuity of £20 on account of his services in the interests of religion and education.

From The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba by Bryce, George

His sister was dead,--and it was a great pity, too--but he would surely do this, if he got on and if the king should give him lots of money and a good life annuity.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

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