survivorship : Idioms & Phrases
Chance of survivorship
- the chance that a person of a given age has of surviving another of a giving age; thus, by the Carlisle tables of mortality the chances of survivorship for two persons, aged 25 and 65, are 89 and 11 respectively, or about 8 to 1 that the elder die first.
Webster 1913
survivorship annuity
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noun an annuity payable to one person in the event that someone else is unable to receive it
reversionary annuity.
