| 单词 | life office |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife office life office n. an office or company which deals in life insurance. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance company (specific) fire office1684 fire company1737 life office1799 life company1806 Re1952 1799 Times 17 Jan. 2/1 (advt.) The Directors of the Pelican Life-Office, think it incumbent upon them to give additional publicity to that salutary Provision. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlvi. 500 An agreeable little party had been got together to meet them, comprising Mr. Snicks the Life Office Secretary, Mr. Prosee the eminent counsel, three solicitors, one commissioner of bankrupts, a special pleader from the Temple. 1879 W. S. Champness Insur. Dict. (1883) 106 The Experience Table is based on that of seventeen British Life Offices. 1930 Pitman's Dict. Life Assurance 506/1 The life office allows him a cash surrender value if he discontinues. 2004 Independent 31 July (Save&Spend section) 14/4 I am forgetting the other category of shares that have got to the populace at large; the demutualisation by various building societies and life offices. < as lemmas |
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