death benefit

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   insurance or pension money payable to a beneficiary of a deceased

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Questions about death benefit

What does death benefit mean?

death benefit means "insurance or pension money payable to a beneficiary of a deceased".

Is death benefit a common word?

death benefit 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.