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Terminable   Listen
adjective
Terminable  adj.  Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable.
Terminable annuity, an annuity for a stated, definite number of years; distinguished from life annuity, and perpetual annuity.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Terminable" Quotes from Famous Books



... will more and more express itself not in accumulating large capital sums to provide for one's old age or for survivors, but in providing insurance for survivors, and invalidity and old-age pensions for the insured and others, payable as terminable annuities. In any case the results to be expected in the changing forms and magnitude of private fortunes are certain to ...
— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter

... the dark races under our tutelage. He referred to the famine and argued that the recurrence of such disasters was inevitable, unless we assisted the poverty-stricken ryot to emigrate and sell his labour to advantage. He proposed indentures and terminable contracts, for he declared he had no wish to transplant for good. All that was needed was a short season of wage-earning abroad, that the labourer might return home with savings which would set him for the future on a higher economic plane. The letter was ...
— The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan



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