life assurance

life assurance
noun
insurance paid to named beneficiaries when the insured person dies
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in England they call life insurance life assurance

Syn: ↑life insurance
Hypernyms: ↑insurance

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noun
chiefly Britain : life insurance

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life assurance or life insurance noun
Insurance providing a sum of money for a specified beneficiary in the event of the policyholder's death, and sometimes for the policyholder if he or she reaches a specified age
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Main Entry:life

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life assurance UK US noun [uncountable] british
life insurance
Thesaurus: insuring and insurancehyponym types of tax and taxationhyponym

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life assurance,
British. life insurance.

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noun [noncount]
Brit :life insurance

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ˈlife assurance [life assurance] noun uncountable (BrE)

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