annuity
A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in…A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
» The law enables us to receive an annuity.
Das Gesetz ermöglicht uns, eine Rente zu bekommen.
Meaning
1 sensesA right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
Annuität, Rente
- income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments
Examples
3 sentencesThe law enables us to receive an annuity.
deDas Gesetz ermöglicht uns, eine Rente zu bekommen. — Tamy
If it weren't for her annuity, she'd never be able to pay the bills.
Poor countess! What a horrible life for her, to be reduced to only thirty thousand pounds of annuity!
Translations
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Origin
From French annuité, from Medieval Latin annuitās, from Latin annuus (“annual”). Cf. annuaFrom French annuité, from Medieval Latin annuitās, from Latin annuus (“annual”). Cf. annuality.
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Forms
plural: annuitiesSynonyms
1 synonyms- income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments:rente