| 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 |
timber rattlesnake
banded rattlesnake
Crotalus horridus horridus | widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States |
timber wolf
grey wolf
gray wolf
Canis lupus | a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America |
| timber | a beam made of wood |
| timber | a post made of wood |
| timber hitch | a hitch used to secure a rope to a log or spar, often supplemented by a half hitch |
timbre
timber
quality tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound), the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely, the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet |
| growing pains | problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages) |
policy insurance policy
insurance | written contract or certificate of insurance, you should have read the small print on your policy |
| growing pains | emotional distress arising during adolescence |
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 |
timber line
timberline
tree line | line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes |
forest
woodland
timberland
timber | land that is covered with trees and shrubs |
insurance broker
insurance agent
general agent underwriter | an agent who sells insurance |
giant timber bamboo
madake
kuhiku
Phyllostachys bambusoides | large bamboo having thick-walled culms, native of China and perhaps Japan, widely grown elsewhere |
| timber tree | any tree that is valued as a source of lumber or timber |
| 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 |
| growing | (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state |
growth
growing
maturation
development ontogeny
ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
| growing pains | pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth |
| indemnity insurance | protection against future loss |
lumber
timber | the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material |
| growing season | the season during which a crop grows best |
low-growing
flat-growing
ground-hugging | of plants that grow relatively low to the ground |
aggressive
fast-growing(a)
strong-growing | tending to spread quickly, an aggressive tumor |
| leggy tall-growing | (of plants) having tall spindly stems |