Associations to the word «Annuity»

Wiktionary

ANNUITY, noun. A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.

Dictionary definition

ANNUITY, noun. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments; "his retirement fund was set up to be paid as an annuity".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne