tontine insurance

1. 1.

   a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members

   Synonymstontine

   Broaderlife insurance

Questions about tontine insurance

What does tontine insurance mean?

tontine insurance means "a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members".

What is another word for tontine insurance?

Close synonyms include tontine. 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 tontine insurance a common word?

tontine insurance 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.