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life insurance

noun [U]
 
 
(UK usually life assurance)

Definition

a system in which you make regular payments to an insurance company in exchange for a fixed amount of money which will be paid to someone you have named, usually a member of your family, when you dieInsurance
(Definition of life insurance noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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