| 单词 | life insurance |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife insurance life insurance n. insurance for payment on the death of the person insured (cf. insurance n. 4 and life assurance n.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > life insurance life insurance1781 life assurance1795 group1888 life cover1958 1781 W. Blackstone Rep. Cases Westminster-Hall I. 312 Concealment of Circumstances on a Life Insurance not so fatal, if the Life be warranted good, as if it be a common Insurance. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 51 Life Insurances are contracts to pay the assured a specified sum of money upon the death of the person or persons named in the contract. 1853 W. Farr in Reg. General's 12th Rept. App. p. xvii The phrase ‘Life Insurance’ is in every respect preferable to ‘Life Assurance’. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 4/3 A definite sum paid every month takes care of the interest, reduces the principal, and in some cases pays taxes, insurance, and a peculiar kind of life insurance which will take care of the remainder of the payments for his estate after the original mortgagee is dead. 2007 Climb Mag. May 51 ‘I've got life insurance,’ he says. ‘It's a good policy. It pays out three times as much if I check out overseas’. < as lemmas |
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