单词 | life assurance |
释义 | > as lemmaslife assurance life assurance n. [ < life n. + assurance n. (compare assurance n. 5)] Chiefly British = life insurance n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > life insurance life insurance1781 life assurance1795 group1888 life cover1958 1795 Life Assurance Society, for Benefit of Widows & Female Relations 14 Form of Declaration. I A.B. of —— in the County of —— being desirous of becoming a Member of the ‘Life Assurance Society for the Benefit of Widows and Female Relations’, in respect of my wife (or Mother, &c), do hereby declare [etc.]. 1804 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1158 I shall send you 50 £ to pay my Life-assurance. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking iii. 84 Life-assurance policies. 1922 E. F. Spurgeon Life Contingencies v. 73 An Office which values its life assurance contracts quinquennially. 2001 Daily Tel. 12 Jan. i. 37/3 Orphan assets—now renamed, in the euphemistic way of the life assurance business, as the ‘inherited estate’—do not really belong to anyone. < as lemmas |
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