death benefitin a sentence
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He sold his insurance policy to a company that will collect the death benefit when he dies.
death benefit = money payable to the beneficiaries of a person who dies
- Forty-thousand-dollar death benefit, double indemnity if he or she died in a train crash, a plane crash, or a fire.† (source)
- The bodies would turn up later in an advanced state of decomposition, and the conspirators would divide the $40,000 death benefit (equivalent to more than one million dollars in twenty-first-century valuation).† (source)
- Then there were rackets like the Klan's Death Benefit Association, which sold insurance policies to Klan members and accepted only cash or personal checks made out to the Grand Dragon himself.† (source)
- "This plan," I type, "offers full death benefits and an optional lump sum on retirement.† (source)
- During the Second Intifada he had overseen the payment of lucrative death benefits to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.† (source)
- Fidelity paid the death benefit.† (source)
- At J. T.'s direction, the ledgers had been rigorously compiled: sales, wages, dues, even the death benefits paid out to the families of murdered members.† (source)
- There was another reason for the death benefits: the gang feared community backlash (its enterprise was plainly a destructive one) and figured it could buy some goodwill for a few hundred dollars here and there.† (source)