Life Insurance

Definition: Life Insurance

Life Insurance

Noun

1. Insurance paid to named beneficiaries when the insured person dies; "in England they call life insurance life assurance".

Specialty Definitions: Life Insurance

Domain	Definitions
Insurance	A contract of assurance covering the risk of death or survival of one or several persons ; life insurance is a co-operative, risk sharing plan based on the incentives of the individual thrift and initiative. Source: European Union. (references)
Labor	A contract that pays the beneficiary a set sum of money upon the death of the policyholder. These plans pay benefits as a lump sum. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Life insurance

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Life insurances, including pensions and life annuities, provide payments depending on life or death of a particular person. Accordingly, documents that may be required for payment are:

a life certificate stating that a person was alive at the date of issue;
a death certificate stating that a person died on a particular date.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Life insurance."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Life Insurance

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
LIC	English	Life Insurance Corporation	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Life Insurance

Synonym: life assurance (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Life Insurance

English words defined with "life insurance": Endowment insurance ♦ insurance policy ♦ life assurance ♦ term insurance, tontine, tontine insurance ♦ wildcat. (references)

Specialty definitions using "life insurance": appointment clerk ♦ BENEFITS CLERK II ♦ CIVIL-SERVICE CLERK, credit life insurance, Curse ♦ Decalogue ♦ ESTATE PLANNER ♦ financial intermediary ♦ indexed annuity, institutional lender, insurance and benefits clerk, insurance and risk manager ♦ life insurance company ♦ Morris plan bank, mortgage life insurance ♦ POLICY-VALUE CALCULATOR ♦ recruitment clerk, RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGER ♦ sales representative, settlement technician, SPECIAL AGENT, GROUP INSURANCE, SPECIAL-CERTIFICATE DICTATOR, structured settlement ♦ triennial valuation ♦ universal life ♦ variable life ♦ welfare plans. (references)

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Modern Usage: Life Insurance

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Do you have life insurance, Phil? (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Nothin' but a miserable little $500 equity in a life insurance policy. (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich)
Clever	Speed is life. Altitude is life insurance. (references; author: unknown)
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Commercial Usage: Life Insurance

Domain	Title
References	Erie Family Life Insurance Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) China Life Insurance Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Cotton States Life Insurance Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Crown Life Insurance Co: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Dixon V Providential Life Insurance Co. (Revised) (reference) How Life Insurance Companies Rob You and What You Can Do About It (reference) Principles of Principled Life Insurance Selling (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Academy Alert : Life Insurance Issues (reference) Monthly Survey Of Life Insurance Sales In The Us (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Life Insurance [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Photo Album: Life Insurance

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Life Insurance From 15p.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Invest in life insurance.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	New York Life Insurance Building, New York, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.		Advertisement made for the Merchants Life Insurance Co. of New York City, possibly used as receipt] / American Bank Note Co., New-York.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn.Credit: Library of Congress.		Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. building, Binghamton, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Decorations above mantle in Negro home along the levee. Norco, Louisiana. Note the life insurance policies.Credit: Library of Congress.		Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Co., 444 Merrick Rd., Lynbrook, Long Island. Cafeteria.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building. Air raid stage display, Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building.Credit: Library of Congress.		Street view of Mutual Life Insurance of New Zealand building.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Historic Usage: Life Insurance

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The provisions of paragraph 12 apply to treaties of re-insurance of life insurance contracts in which enemy companies are the reinsurers. (reference)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Life Insurance

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A donor with borderline elevated ALT may be denied health and life insurance and may suffer from unwarranted anxiety and stress. (references)
		For example, people with a positive test result may risk losing health and life insurance, suffer loss of employment, and other liabilities. (references)
		The 1959 and 1983 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tables of ranges of weight with minimal mortality do not provide for any age variation. (references)
Business		However, despite this restriction many do purchase life insurance abroad. (references)
		For the most part, however, life insurance is contracted freely by each individual buyer. (references)
		Only one AFJP, Profesi�n, does not have a life insurance company among its principal shareholders. (references)
Economic History	Switzerland	It also offers saving accounts, investment funds and life insurance solutions. (references)
	Bahrain	In addition, despite traditional Shari'a concerns noted above, demand for life insurance is rising. (references)
	Japan	Medium-term loans are available from commercial banks, as well as from trust banks and life insurance companies. (references)
Human Rights	Peru	The Minister of Defense issued a Supreme Resolution entitling La Rosa to free medical care, life insurance, and a disability pension of $229 (800 soles) per month, which she accepted. (references)
Political Economy	JORDAN	Negotiations cover a wide range of issues, including salaries, safety standards, working conditions, and health and life insurance. (references)
	PAKISTAN	The general insurance and life insurance sectors are now open to foreign investors; they are entitled to hold a 51-percent stake in companies in these sectors. (references)
Trade	Barbados	Life insurance and trust companies offer long-term individual and commercial mortgages. (references)
	Spain	The life insurance market has also grown substantially in Spain, due primarily to the similarities between survival insurance contracts and traditional saving formulae, and the more favorable tax treatment of the former. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. Following is the revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian. Thou shalt no God but me adore: 'Twere too expensive to have more. No images nor idols make For Robert Ingersoll to break. Take not God's name in vain; select A time when it will have effect. Work not on Sabbath days at all, But go to see the teams play ball. Honor thy parents. That creates For life insurance lower rates. Kill not, abet not those who kill; Thou shalt not pay thy butcher's bill. Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete Successfully in business. Cheat. Bear not false witness -- that is low -- But "hear 'tis rumored so and so." Cover thou naught that thou hast not By hook or crook, or somehow, got. G.J.
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Usage in Company Names: Life Insurance

Country	Name	Country	Name
Canada	Clarica Life Insurance Company	Japan	Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company
Malaysia	John Hancock Life Insurance (Malaysia) Berhad	Taiwan	China Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
Thailand	Siam Commercial New York Life Insurance	USA	Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Company
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Life Insurance

Expression using "life insurance": whole life insurance. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Life Insurance

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
life insurance	8,680	cheap life insurance	162
term life insurance	2,207	affordable term life insurance	158
life insurance quote	1,459	gerber life insurance	156
term life insurance quote	963	group term life insurance	155
whole life insurance	784	globe life insurance	155
life insurance company	653	mortgage life insurance lead	152
life insurance policy	406	life insurance lead for agent	152
life insurance rate	394	guardian life insurance	151
life insurance lead	331	life insurance sales	148
term life insurance rate	330	exclusive life insurance lead	146
universal life insurance	315	discount term life insurance	142
cheap term life insurance	280	mortgage life insurance	141
met life insurance	269	life insurance sales lead	140
new york life insurance	211	metropolitan life insurance	138
low cost life insurance	190	level term life insurance	136
whole life insurance quote	180	term life insurance online	136
term life insurance policy	180	competitive term life insurance	136
term life insurance company	173	variable universal life insurance	133
life insurance quote online	167	canada life insurance	129
online life insurance	166	inexpensive term life insurance	127
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Modern Translations: Life Insurance

Language		Translations for "life insurance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sigurim i jetës. (various references)

Arabic		‏تأمين حياة (assurance), ‏التأمين على الحياة, ‏أمن على حياته (insure). (various references)

Bulgarian		застраховка за живот (endowment insurance, reversion). (various references)

Chinese		人壽保險 . (various references)

Czech		životní pojistka. (various references)

Danish		livsforsikring (life assurance). (various references)

Dutch		levensverzekering (life assurance). (various references)

Finnish		henkivakuutus (life assurance). (various references)

French		assurance-vie (life assurance). (various references)

German		Lebensversicherung (life assurance). (various references)

Greek		ασφάλιση ζωής (life assurance), ασφάλεια ζωήσ (life assurance), ασφάλεια ζωής (life assurance). (various references)

Hebrew		בטוח חיים (assurance). (various references)

Hungarian		életbiztosítás (endowment insurance). (various references)

Italian		assicurazione sulla vita (life assurance). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�命保険 , �"�保 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せいほ, せいめいほけ�". (various references)

Manx		urrysaght heihill. (various references)

Pig Latin		ifelay insuranceay

Portuguese		seguro de vida (life assurance, life preserver, lifebelt, reversion), prisão perpétua (life imprisonment, life sentence). (various references)

Romanian		asigurare pe viaţã. (various references)

Russian		страхование жизни (life-insurance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		osiguranje života. (various references)

Spanish		seguro de vida. (various references)

Swedish		livförsäkring (assurance, life assurance). (various references)

Turkish		hayat sigortası (life assurance). (various references)

Vietnamese		bảo hiểm nhân th. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Life Insurance

Misspellings
	"Life Insurance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lfe insurance. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Life Insurance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-i-l-n-n-r-s-u"
	-3 letters: financiers, influences, luciferase, luciferins, refinances.
	-4 letters: canneries, carnifies, ceruleans, clarifies, financier, flaneries, fluencies, frauleins, incliners, infancies, influence, insincere, insurance, larcenies, licensure, linearise, luciferin, narceines, refinance, reliances, reunifies, surficial, uncleaner, unilinear.
	-5 letters: aerifies, airlines, alieners, aneurins, anilines, anserine, auricles, carlines, causerie, cerulean, cinerins, cislunar, cleaners, cleanser, crannies, eucaines, faiences, failures, fanciers, fiancees, filarees, finalise.
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