anointing of the sick extreme unction last rites | a Catholic sacrament, a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation |
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 |
sick bag sickbag | a bag provided on an airplane for passengers who are suffering from airsickness and need to vomit |
sickbay sick berth | (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship) |
sick list | a list of those who are ill (e.g. on a warship or in a regiment etc) |
policy insurance policy insurance | written contract or certificate of insurance, you should have read the small print on your policy |
sick joke | a joke in bad taste |
sick | people who are sick, they devote their lives to caring for the sick |
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 |
sick call sick parade | the daily military formation at which individuals report to the medical officer as sick |
employer | a person or firm that employs workers |
insurance broker insurance agent general agent underwriter | an agent who sells insurance |
sick person diseased person sufferer | a person suffering from an illness |
sick pay | wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave |
sick benefit sickness benefit | money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work |
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 |
migraine megrim sick headache hemicrania | a severe recurring vascular headache, occurs more frequently in women than men |
sick headache | a headache accompanied by nausea |
indemnity insurance | protection against future loss |
sick leave | a leave of absence from work because of illness |
vomit vomit up purge cast sick cat be sick disgorge regorge retch puke barf spew spue chuck upchuck honk regurgitate throw up dbbaa | eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth, After drinking too much, the students vomited, He purged continuously, The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night |
ghastly grim grisly gruesome macabre sick | shockingly repellent, inspiring horror, ghastly wounds, the grim aftermath of the bombing, the grim task of burying the victims, a grisly murder, gruesome evidence of human sacrifice, macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages, macabre tortures conceived by madmen |
sick | deeply affected by a strong feeling, sat completely still, sick with envy, she was sick with longing |
disgusted fed up(p) sick(p) sick of(p) tired of(p) | having a strong distaste from surfeit, grew more and more disgusted, fed up with their complaints, sick of it all, sick to death of flattery, gossip that makes one sick, tired of the noise and smoke |
brainsick crazy demented disturbed mad sick unbalanced unhinged | affected with madness or insanity, a man who had gone mad |
pale pallid wan sick | (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness, dim or feeble, the pale light of a half moon, a pale sun, the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street, a pallid sky, the pale (or wan) stars, the wan light of dawn |