reversionary annuity

1. 1.

   an annuity payable to one person in the event that someone else is unable to receive it

   Synonymssurvivorship annuity

   Broaderannuity

Questions about reversionary annuity

What does reversionary annuity mean?

reversionary annuity means "an annuity payable to one person in the event that someone else is unable to receive it".

What is another word for reversionary annuity?

Close synonyms include survivorship annuity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reversionary annuity a common word?

reversionary annuity 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.