ANNUITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does annuity mean? 

• ANNUITY (noun)
  The noun ANNUITY has 1 sense:

1. income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments

  Familiarity information: ANNUITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNUITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

annuity; rente

Context example:

his retirement fund was set up to be paid as an annuity

Hypernyms ("annuity" is a kind of...):

regular payment (a payment made at regular times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "annuity"):

annuity in advance (an annuity paid in a series of more or less equal payments at the beginning of equally spaced periods)

ordinary annuity (an annuity paid in a series of more or less equal payments at the end of equally spaced periods)

reversionary annuity; survivorship annuity (an annuity payable to one person in the event that someone else is unable to receive it)

tontine (an annuity scheme wherein participants share certain benefits and on the death of any participant his benefits are redistributed among the remaining participants; can run for a fixed period of time or until the death of all but one participant)

 Context examples 

And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“David had bought an annuity for himself with his money, I know,” said she, by and by.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There are a dozen annuities to old servants and the like, and it’s all I can do to scrape the money together to pay them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sent Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper, away to her friends at a distance; but he did it handsomely, for he settled an annuity on her for life: and she deserved it—she was a very good woman.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Dick, who had been rattling his money all this time, was rattling it so loudly now, that my aunt felt it necessary to check him with a look, before saying: The poor child's annuity died with her?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His money, which had ruined what might have been a great life, was divided amongst many bequests, an annuity to his valet, Ambrose, being amongst them; but enough has come to his sister, my dear mother, to help to make her old age as sunny and as pleasant as even I could wish.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

That his last act, completed but a few months since, was to induce Mr. W. to execute a relinquishment of his share in the partnership, and even a bill of sale on the very furniture of his house, in consideration of a certain annuity, to be well and truly paid by—HEEP—on the four common quarter-days in each and every year.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It has given me such an abhorrence of annuities, that I am sure I would not pin myself down to the payment of one for all the world.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)