life insurance

noun

insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.

Origin of life insurance

First recorded in 1800–10

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Examples from the Web for life insurance

Contemporary Examples of life insurance

Some, like Justice Kennedy, are conservative investors and put all their money into life-insurance policies.
The Supreme Court’s Health-Care Stock Problem
Peter Schweizer
March 28, 2012
As the corpses piled up, the life-insurance policies paid out.
The Granny Faked Funeral Case
Christine Pelisek
January 18, 2011

Historical Examples of life insurance

There will be a life-insurance division, a casualty division, and so on.
The Pirates of Ersatz
Murray Leinster
When I first touched on the life-insurance companies they laughed.
Frenzied Finance
Thomas W. Lawson
"To talk of life-insurance puts me too much in mind of death," she murmured.
Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles
Mrs. Henry Wood
He had not only allowed that Nellie was very sick, but he had talked about “life-insurance,” and asking God for protection.
Miss Ashton's New Pupil
Mrs. S. S. Robbins
They will produce a list that would delight the heart of a provident director of a life-insurance company.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
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British Dictionary definitions for life insurance

life insurance

noun

another name for life assurance

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