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annuitant|əˈnjuːɪtənt|
[f. next + -ant, by form-assoc. with accountant, attendant, etc.]
1. One who holds, or is in receipt of, an annuity.
1720Meres (title) The Equity of Parliaments, etc., in answer to the Crisis of Property, and addressed to the Annuitants. 1758Johnson Idler No. 24 ⁋10 Materials for the meditation of the annuitant between the days of quarterly payment. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 1 A lean annuitant like myself. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Property Law xvii. 130 An old servant who dies, as even annuitants some time must.
2. fig.
1811W. Spencer Poems 209 Annuitants of Fame, they took no care How ill their beggar'd successors might fare.
3. attrib. quasi-adj.
1792A. Young Trav. France 474 A variety of annuitant societies. |