Definitions for annuities

annuities an·nu·i·ty

Spelling: [uh-noo-i-tee, uh-nyoo-]
IPA: /əˈnu ɪ ti, əˈnyu-/

Annuities is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 323 anagrams from letters in annuities (aeiinnstu).

Definitions for annuities

noun

  1. a specified income payable at stated intervals for a fixed or a contingent period, often for the recipient's life, in consideration of a stipulated premium paid either in prior installment payments or in a single payment.
  2. the right to receive such an income, or the duty to make such a payment or payments.

Origin of annuities

1400-50; late Middle English Anglo-French annuité, annualté Medieval Latin annuitās, equivalent to Latin annu(us) yearly (derivative of annus year) + -itās -ity

Examples for annuities

On her 75th birthday Susan's girls had presented her with an annuity of $800 a year.

If the deceased had no claim upon you, why did you promise him an annuity?

My kind master, at my request, granted me a lump sum in place of my annuity.

It is only fair to tell you that I have no money but my annuity.

But that $1 million is actually an annuity, which pays out about $25,000 over 40 years—before taxes.

With the remaining $1.775 million, he can buy an annuity that yields almost $89,000 - which still beats working.

This man enjoyed, by my uncle's will, an annuity of fifty pounds.

My money is an annuity, so that I cannot leave anything to my children.

She compromised for an annuity of two hundred pounds, to be continued to her child.

If she had taken her annuity as usual, you would not have been here, and we should have been better off.

Word Value for annuities
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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