| insurance claim | demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy |
| social insurance | government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people, financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue |
| national insurance | social insurance program in Britain, based on contributions from employers and employees, provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services |
| old-age insurance | insurance paid to the elderly |
| survivors insurance | insurance paid to surviving spouses |
| disability insurance | social insurance for the disabled |
terminus terminal figure
term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
short-term memory
STM
immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
long-term memory
LTM | your general store of remembered information |
| term | any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial, the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree |
| degree of a term | the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term |
| term | a word or expression used for some particular thing, he learned many medical terms |
| term paper | a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term |
policy insurance policy
insurance | written contract or certificate of insurance, you should have read the small print on your policy |
| term | one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition, the major term of a syllogism must occur twice |
| major term | the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion |
| minor term | the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion |
| middle term | the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion |
| condition term | (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement, the contract set out the conditions of the lease, the terms of the treaty were generous |
slang slang expression
slang term | informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions, often vituperative or vulgar, their speech was full of slang expressions |
insurance company
insurance firm
insurer
insurance underwriter
underwriter | a financial institution that sells insurance |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDIC | a federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions |
insurance broker
insurance agent
general agent underwriter | an agent who sells insurance |
| term infant | infant born at a gestational age between and completed weeks |
| premium insurance premium | payment for insurance |
coverage
insurance coverage | the total amount and type of insurance carried |
| insurance | promise of reimbursement in the case of loss, paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company |
automobile insurance
car insurance | insurance against loss due to theft or traffic accidents |
no fault insurance
no fault automobile insurance | a system of automobile insurance where a party who is injured in an automobile accident recovers damages up to a specific amount against his own insurance company regardless of who was responsible for the accident, the amount of litigation resulting from minor accidents is reduced by no fault insurance |
| business interruption insurance | insurance that provides protection for the loss of profits and continuing fixed expenses resulting from a break in commercial activities due to the occurrence of a peril |
| fire insurance | insurance against loss due to fire |
| group insurance | insurance that is purchased by a group (such as the employees of a company) usually at a reduced rate to individual members of the group |
| hazard insurance | insurance that provides protection against certain risks such as storms or fires |
| health insurance | insurance against loss due to ill health |
hospitalization insurance
hospitalization | insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense |
| liability insurance | insurance that provides protection from claims arising from injuries or damage to other people or property |
life insurance
life assurance | insurance paid to named beneficiaries when the insured person dies, in England they call life insurance life assurance |
| endowment insurance | life insurance for a specified amount which is payable to the insured person at the expiration of a certain period of time or to a designated beneficiary immediately upon the death of the insured |
| tontine tontine insurance | a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members |
whole life insurance
ordinary life insurance
straight life insurance | insurance on the life of the insured for a fixed amount at a definite premium that is paid each year in the same amount during the entire lifetime of the insured |
| malpractice insurance | insurance purchased by physicians and hospitals to cover the cost of being sued for malpractice, obstetricians have to pay high rates for malpractice insurance |
| self-insurance | insuring yourself by setting aside money to cover possible losses rather than by purchasing an insurance policy |
| term insurance | lowost insurance that is valid only for a stated period of time and has no cash surrender value or loan value, term insurance is most often associated with life insurance policies |
| indemnity insurance | protection against future loss |
| half-term | a short vacation about halfway through a school term, he came to visit at half-term |
| term | a limited period of time, a prison term, he left school before the end of term |
prison term
sentence
time | the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned, he served a prison term of months, his sentence was toyears, he is doing time in the county jail |
school term
academic term
academic session
session | the time during which a school holds classes, they had to shorten the school term |
| term full term | the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent, a healthy baby born at full term |
presidency
presidential term
administration | the tenure of a president, things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration |