¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Annuities
1. annuity [n] - See also: annuity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Annuities
Literary usage of Annuities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1856)
"On the Financial Statistics of British Government Life annuities (1808-1855),
and on the Loss sustained by Government in granting annuities. ..."
2. Life Insurance: A Textbook by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"Premium computations therefore will not be made for ordinary joint-life,
last-survivor and contingent or survivorship insurances.1 annuities. ..."
3. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam ( Smith, Joseph Shield Nicholson (1895)
"When annuities are granted upon separate lives, the death of every indi- purchase.
Such was the supposed instability vidual annuitant ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1819)
"3l. per cent annuities so transferred, such annuity at the rate of 31. 10*.
per cent, to commence from the 5th of April 1818 ; and every person who shall ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Assume that annuities on 10000 lives each ten yean of age, which satisfy the Hm
mortality table, have been purchased. Of these nominees 79 will die before ..."
6. Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising by United States Attorney-General (1869)
"annuities TO MIAMI INDIANS. No part of the amount appropriated by the act of
March 3, 1865, for the benefit of the Miami Indians, can be paid to persons ..."
7. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1828)
"Mr. Finlayson, on looking to the annuities which were outstanding on the 5th
Jan., 1827, and the 5th of Jan., 1828, con- ceived, upon a comparison of the ..."
8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"annuities in trust in the cause as will be sufficient to raise 414/. 14s. 4d.
being interest accrued since the 10th of January, 1785, the day of the death ..."
Other Resources:
