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Definition

income received in regular periodic payments — especially from a fixed capital investment

The annuity does not increase with inflation.

The annuity is fixed and insured, but if the economy gets bad enough, the annuity can decrease.
Under current law, fixed annuities are regulated differently and provide a different level of security than variable annuities.
She lives off a small annuity.
With this one job you got annuities for your whole passel of bambinos.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
But I shall not give up my Liberty for a dirty annuity.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Miss Crawley had left her a little annuity.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
A small annuity is what I should like you to have—so as to be independent of me—and so that I may be independent of you.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
The calculations of various life assurance and annuity offices, among other figures which cannot go wrong, have established the fact.'
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
He had his teacher's pension and a small tax-deferred annuity and an old passbook with interest posted in cozy broken type.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
There were no legacies, no annuities, none of the posthumous bustle with which some of the dead prolong their activities.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
A decent annuity would have restored her thoughts to their old train, at once.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
He was some kind of human annuity.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
I have left an annuity for his sole support in case he should outlive me.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
I had often heard him complain of the disproportion of his rank with his fortune; and I advised him to invest all he had in an annuity.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
They will discuss a new angle on their annuities.
Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
I have given a mortgage on our annuity.
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler
He decides on one opportunity that gives him an annuity for life.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
James and Peter will get the lion's share of my money, that is to say, it stays in the business and Peter will draw an annuity.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
The annuity was a modest one, but with the help of the boarders and of a tenacious purpose Mrs. Keating had managed.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

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