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A form of insurance on the life of a person, whereby if the person dies then the insurance policy pays out a sum of money to the beneficiary (such as a person's family).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: life assurance
Antonyms: none provided
insurance paid to named beneficiaries when the insured person dies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- in England they call life insurance life assurance
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: life assurance
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insurance
Narrower terms: endowment insurance, tontine, tontine insurance, whole life insurance, ordinary life insurance, straight life insurance
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
تَأْمِين عَلَى اَلْحَيَاة
(taʔmīn ʕalā l-ḥayāh)
— form of insurance
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Burmese:
အသက်အာမံခံ
(a.sak-amamhkam)
— form of insurance
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Catalan:
assegurança de vida
— form of insurance
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Chinese Mandarin:
人壽保險 /人寿保险
(rénshòu bǎoxiǎn)
— form of insurance
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Chinese Mandarin:
生命保險 /生命保险
(shēngmìng bǎoxiǎn)
— form of insurance
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Czech:
životní pojištění
— form of insurance
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Danish:
livsforsikring
— form of insurance
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Dutch:
levensverzekering
— form of insurance
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Estonian:
elukindlustus
— form of insurance
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Finnish:
henkivakuutus
— form of insurance
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French:
assurance-vie
— form of insurance
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German:
Lebensversicherung
— form of insurance
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Greek:
ασφάλεια ζωής
(asfáleia zoḯs)
— form of insurance
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Gujarati:
જીવન વીમો
(jīvan vīmo)
— form of insurance
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Hebrew:
ביטוח חיים
— form of insurance
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Hebrew:
בטחון חי
— form of insurance
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Hindi:
जीवन बीमा
(jīvan bīmā)
— form of insurance
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Hungarian:
életbiztosítás
— form of insurance
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Indonesian:
asuransi jiwa
— form of insurance
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Irish:
árachas saoil
— form of insurance
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Italian:
assicurazione sulla vita
— form of insurance
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Japanese:
生命保険
(seimei-hoken)
— form of insurance
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Javanese:
ꦠꦔ꧀ꦒꦸꦁꦗꦶꦮ
(tanggung jiwa)
— form of insurance
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Korean:
생명보험
(saengmyeong boheom)
— form of insurance
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Latvian:
dzīvības apdrošināšana
— form of insurance
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Malay:
insurans hayat
— form of insurance
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Plautdietsch:
Läwensvesechrunk
— form of insurance
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Polish:
ubezpieczenie na życie
— form of insurance
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Portuguese:
seguro de vida
— form of insurance
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Romanian:
asigurare de viață
— form of insurance
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Russian:
страхова́ние жи́зни
(straxovánije žízni)
— form of insurance
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Spanish:
seguro de vida
— form of insurance
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Swahili:
bima ya maisha
— form of insurance
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Swedish:
livförsäkring
— form of insurance
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Thai:
การประกันชีวิต
(gaan bpràgan cheewít)
— form of insurance
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Turkish:
hayat sigortası
— form of insurance
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Vietnamese:
bảo hiểm nhân thọ
— form of insurance
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Yiddish:
לעבן פֿאַרזיכערונג
(lebn farzikherung)
— form of insurance