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life assurance

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noun

  1. Also called: life insurance.  a form of insurance providing for the payment of a specified sum to a named beneficiary on the death of the policyholder

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"This included my life assurance and medical aid. All was gone in just a day. Dollarization wiped out everything I had saved."

From Reuters Nov. 23, 2023

The RCN has written to Health Secretary Sajid Javid calling for an extension of life assurance payments.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2022

Vivos Europe, in contrast, is marketed as “the ultimate life assurance solution for high net worth families.”

From The Verge May 13, 2020

Retail investors must certify they won’t invest more than 10% of their portfolios, excluding housing, pensions and life assurance, on crowdfunded companies.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2015

This caused him to turn his attention to the subject of life assurance and bills of mortality.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

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