co-beneficiary

1. 1.

   one of two or more beneficiaries of the same benefit

   Broaderbeneficiary

Questions about co-beneficiary

What does co-beneficiary mean?

co-beneficiary means "one of two or more beneficiaries of the same benefit".

How many syllables are in co-beneficiary?

co-beneficiary has 7 syllables and divides as co--be-ne-fi-ci-a-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is co-beneficiary a common word?

co-beneficiary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.