life insurance
- 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.
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Origin of life insurance
First recorded in 1800–10
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Examples from the Web for life insurance
Contemporary Examples
Some, like Justice Kennedy, are conservative investors and put all their money into life-insurance policies.
As the corpses piled up, the life-insurance policies paid out.
Historical Examples
There will be a life-insurance division, a casualty division, and so on.
The Pirates of ErsatzMurray Leinster
When I first touched on the life-insurance companies they laughed.
Frenzied FinanceThomas W. Lawson
"To talk of life-insurance puts me too much in mind of death," she murmured.
Mrs. Halliburton's TroublesMrs. 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 PupilMrs. S. S. Robbins
They will produce a list that would delight the heart of a provident director of a life-insurance company.
life insurance
- another name for life assurance
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