assurance : Idioms & Phrases
Collateral assurance
- that which is made, over and above the deed itself.
Webster 1913
Endowment insurance ∨ assurance
- a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified.
Webster 1913
Life assurance
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noun insurance paid to named beneficiaries when the insured person dies
life insurance.
- in England they call life insurance life assurance
WordNet
- . See
Life insurance , below.
Webster 1913
self-assurance
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noun freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
confidence; self-confidence; authority; sureness; assurance.
- his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular
- after that failure he lost his confidence
- she spoke with authority
