annuities

[uh-noo-i-tee, uh-nyoo-]

an·nu·i·ty

[uh-noo-i-tee, uh-nyoo-]
noun, plural an·nu·i·ties.
1.
a specified income payable at stated intervals for a fixed or a contingent period, often for the recipient's life, in consideration of a stipulated premium paid either in prior installment payments or in a single payment.
2.
the right to receive such an income, or the duty to make such a payment or payments.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Anglo-French annuité, annualté < Medieval Latin annuitās, equivalent to Latin annu(us) yearly (derivative of annus year) + -itās -ity

su·per·an·nu·i·ty, noun, plural su·per·an·nu·i·ties.
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