| 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 |
mutual aid
international logistic support | arrangements made between nations to assist each other |
| mutual resemblance | symmetrical resemblance |
policy insurance policy
insurance | written contract or certificate of insurance, you should have read the small print on your policy |
| society | an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization |
Tammany Hall
Tammany Society
Tammany | a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 's and early 's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism |
insurance company
insurance firm
insurer
insurance underwriter
underwriter | a financial institution that sells insurance |
mutual fund
mutual fund company
open-end fund
open-end investment company | a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares |
Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
Society of Jesus
Jesuit order | a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen, it is strongly committed to education and scholarship |
Religious Society of Friends
Society of Friends
Quakers | a Christian sect founded by George Fox about , commonly called Quakers |
Shakers
United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing | a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States |
club
social club
society guild
gild
lodge
order | a formal association of people with similar interests, he joined a golf club, they formed a small lunch society, men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today |
| secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
| Fabian Society | an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism |
| academy honorary society | an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature |
Royal Society
Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge | an honorary English society (formalized inand given a royal charter by Charles II in ) through which the British government has supported science |
| open society | a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy), America's open society has made it an easy target for terrorists |
| tribal society | a society with the social organization of a tribe |
hunting and gathering tribe
hunting and gathering society | group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables, usually nomadic |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDIC | a federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions |
society high society
beau monde
smart set
bon ton | the fashionable elite |
| building society | British equivalent of United States savings and loan association |
mutual savings bank
MSB | a statehartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees |
| Society Islands | an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa |
insurance broker
insurance agent
general agent underwriter | an agent who sells insurance |
| mutual induction | generation of electromotive forces in each other by two adjacent circuits |
| 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 |