double indemnity

1. 1.

   a clause in an insurance policy that provides for double the face value of the policy in the case of accidental death

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Questions about double indemnity

What does double indemnity mean?

double indemnity means "a clause in an insurance policy that provides for double the face value of the policy in the case of accidental death".

Is double indemnity a common word?

double indemnity 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.