Definition of Death benefit

1. Noun. Insurance or pension money payable to a beneficiary of a deceased.

Generic synonyms: Benefit
Specialized synonyms: Advance Death Benefit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Death Benefit

death's head
death's herb
death-bed
death-knell
death-rattle
death-ray
death-roll
death-squad
death-watch beetle
death-watch beetles
death adder
death angel
death angels
death bed
death bell
death benefit (current term)
death by PowerPoint
death by chocolate
death by cop
death by spellcheck
death camas
death camp
death camps
death cap
death caps
death certificates
death chair
death chamber
death clock

Literary usage of Death benefit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents (1993)
"The death benefit also will be paid if the serviceperson would have been eligible to participate but for the high-school diploma requirement and the length- ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"The marriage of a member subsequent to his appointment of a beneficiary of the death benefit secured by his membership shall be a revocation of such ..."

3. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1908)
"The consideration of the cost of the death benefit has been deferred until an examination of the cost of the disability benefit and of the wife's funeral ..."

4. Principles Governing the Retirement of Public Employees by Lewis Meriam (1918)
"It may be safely concluded, therefore, that any retirement system at the present time would have to include some death benefit. The question of the exact ..."

5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"death benefit, in the form of a pension, a gratuity or a weekly allowance for a ... The annual number of awards of death benefit slightly exceeds 2.000; ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance of Every Kind by Joseph Asbury Joyce (1917)
"... and also provides that "if a death occur in said lodge during such suspension no death benefit shall be paid," said clause shall be construed to read as ..."

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