| 释义 |
> as lemmasviatical settlement viatical settlement n. an arrangement whereby a person having a terminal illness (esp. AIDS) sells his or her life insurance policy to a third party for less than its mature value so that he or she can benefit from the proceeds while alive; cf. death futures n. at death n. Compounds 2.Sources differ on the sense of viaticum n. which informs this use of viatical: see, for example, quots. 1993, 1995.< |