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annuity /əˈnjuːɪti /noun (plural annuities)1A fixed sum of money paid to someone each year, typically for the rest of their life: he left her an annuity of £1,000 in his will:...- Until 1999, the only choice available to anyone retiring was an annuity, a fixed income for life.
- Previously, if investors wanted to reinvest the bulk of their savings, they were compelled to put the money into an annuity.
- Equitable is expected to first devise a draft proposal, designed to buy out the expensive annuity guarantees that the society can no longer afford.
1.1A form of insurance or investment entitling the investor to a series of annual sums: loans secured on an older person’s home which are used to purchase a life annuity [as modifier]: an annuity scheme...- The scandal is also enmeshing insurance companies selling variable annuities, policies that let investors pay their premiums to mutual funds.
- When you use the amortization or annuity method, you must factor in an annual interest rate.
- She says the little money she has left is in annuities at an insurance company.
Derivatives annuitize (also annuitise) verb ...- By annuitizing income, Social Security is forcing people to take something they do not need, rather than giving them something that the market fails to provide.
- Once your contract is annuitized, part of each payment (from a fixed annuity) is considered a partial return of the basis (your contribution) and part is taxable income using an exclusion ratio.
- Only about 1% of variable annuities are ever annuitized.
Origin Late Middle English: from French annuité, from medieval Latin annuitas, from Latin annuus 'yearly', from annus 'year'. Rhymes acuity, ambiguity, assiduity, congruity, contiguity, continuity, exiguity, fatuity, fortuity, gratuity, ingenuity, perpetuity, perspicuity, promiscuity, suety, superfluity, tenuity, vacuity |