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Meaning of "death futures" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEATH FUTURES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEATH FUTURES

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Death futures is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEATH FUTURES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of death futures in the English dictionary

The definition of death futures in the dictionary is life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEATH FUTURES

death by chocolate
death by misadventure
death camass
death camp
death cap
death cell
death certificate
death cup
death duties
death duty
death grant
death house
death knell
death march
death mask
death metal
death notice
death penalty
death rate
death rattle

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEATH FUTURES

dentures
facts and figures
features
financial futures
futures
indentures
index futures
interest-rate futures
library pictures
manufactures
measures
pictures
plumbing fixtures
population figures
raptures
sales figures
Scriptures
significant figures
the Coal Measures
the pictures

Synonyms and antonyms of death futures in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «death futures» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEATH FUTURES

Find out the translation of death futures to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of death futures from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «death futures» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

死亡期货
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Los futuros de muerte
570 millions of speakers

English

death futures
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मौत वायदा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العقود الآجلة الموت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

смерти фьючерсы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

futuros de morte
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত্যু ভবিষ্যত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

terme de mort
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Masa depan mati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tod Futures
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

死先物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

죽음 의 선물
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kematian berjangka
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tương lai chết
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறப்பு எதிர்காலங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मृत्यू फ्यूचर्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ölüm gelecekleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Futures morte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kontrakty terminowe na śmierć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

смерті ф´ючерси
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

futures pe moarte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

futures θανάτου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dood termynkontrak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

döds terminer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

døds futures
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of death futures

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEATH FUTURES»

The term «death futures» is barely ever used and occupies the 204.578 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEATH FUTURES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «death futures» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «death futures» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about death futures

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEATH FUTURES»

Discover the use of death futures in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to death futures and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Spy
Street name: Death futures. Attributes: Uncomplicated, safe, legal and nearly guaranteed to reap you 20 percent annual returns. "We have violated the risk- reward laws of personal finance," says Steve Keller, president of Kelco, a Lexington, ...
2
Futures: Of Jacques Derrida
Of Jacques Derrida Richard Rand. dialectical set-up: and according to a familiar paradox of deconstructive thought, death is thought more radically than in the tradition by being thought of in a sense less radically, as neither rending nor repose ...
Richard Rand, 2001
3
A Deadly Settlement
A detective agency in San Francisco is hired by a company called Compassion West, to work as "living benefit brokers" for death futures.
Mel Staley, 2010
4
Viatical
In fact, if there is such a thing as “death futures”, for you in the media, aren't life insurance policies really death futures? Viatical settlements should be called “life futures” because I've seen what they do for those who use them. They give life.
Blair Fernau, 2005
5
Encyclopaedia of AIDS
Death Futures Some entities have offered to purchase life insurance policies of PWA through a Life Insurance Buyout. The purchaser becomes the irrevocable beneficiary, and the PWA gets remuneration that can be used for medicine, ...
G.C. Satpathy, 2003
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Dictionary of Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms and ...
J. Galswarthy., other men collected pictures to escape death duties G. Greene. death futures Am. col. life insurance policies of people who are terminally ill, bought by a third party at less than mature valueasan investment redeemable onthe ...
V. S. Matyushenkov, 2010
7
Cambridge Business English Dictionary
Q currency/ bond/dollar futures —) See also commodity futures, death futures, financial futures, index futures, interest rate futures, stock index futures E Focus On: Futures With commodities (= raw materials, metals, basic foods such as grain , ...
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... in 1975 by capital transfer tax and in 1986 by inheritance tax). death futures 7plural noun US informal life insurance policies of terminally ill people, purchased by a third party at less than their mature value as a form of short-term investment.
Angus Stevenson, 2010
9
Investing 101
These are death futures on old people. Sometimes, healthy old people. And the salesmen take this one the opposite way: If you happen to be in your 70s and in good health, an insurance agent might urge you to buy a huge—$1 million to $10  ...
Kathy Kristof, 2010
10
Regulation of Money Managers: Mutual Funds and Advisers
cert. denied, 552 U.S. 1062 (2007); see Albert, The Future of Death Futures: Why Viatical Settlements Must Be Classified as Securities, 19 Pace L. Rev. 345 (1999) ; Davis, Should Viatical Settlements Be Considered ''Securities'' Under the ...
Tamar Frankel, Ann Taylor Schwing, 2000

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEATH FUTURES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term death futures is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bob Dunning: We're taking the lead on this drought thing
The city will, however, establish a waiting list and sell “death futures,” whereby an out-of-towner will be allowed a one-week visa upon the death ... «Davis Enterprise, Mar 15»
2
For sale: Unwanted annuity
Life settlement schemes - their less appealing moniker is 'death futures' - are popular in America but never took off in the UK. The few schemes ... «Investors Chronicle, Jan 15»
3
Why risk avoidance is the biggest risk
Vineyards, ostrich farms, stamps, Nasdaq pink-sheet biotechs, death futures, Vancouver penny shares... Who knows what rubbish will be ... «Financial Times, Sep 14»
4
Murder in Texas
The inherent risk of these so-called “Death Futures” is that the patient will survive for a long time. The Morning News, while noting that advocacy groups support ... «Vanity Fair, Jan 14»
5
Grantland E-mails the Oscars
Time for the 2012 Death Futures! I have Kirk Douglas with Harper Lee as a sleeper second pick. Pappademas: My money's on the kid from ... «Grantland, Feb 12»
6
BRENT MUSBURGER'S DEAD SOLID PERFECTS TIP SHEET, 12 …
Get Brent's 364 EMERALD CLUB LOCKDOWNS LETTER for POWER SUBSCRIBERS now, and see the future in death futures LIKE THE ... «EDSBS, Dec 11»
7
A macabre investment that's flying high
To their critics, they are "death futures" - a heartless speculation in the life expectancy of sick or elderly people on the other side of the Atlantic. «Moneywise Magazine, Mar 10»
8
Victims of the deaths trade
The "death futures" market, heavily promoted as an investment innovation guaranteeing high returns, is in disarray after the collapse of ... «Independent, May 06»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Death futures [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/death-futures>. Apr 2024 ».
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