Term: tontine: an annuity scheme wherein participants share certain benefits and on the death of any participant his benefits are redistributed among the remaining participants; can run for a fixed period of time or until the death of all but one participant
Candidate hypernym: annuity: income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments → 1
Candidate hypernym: old french: the earliest form of the French language; 9th to 15th century → 0
Candidate hypernym: ascidian: minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: buttermilk: residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture → 0
Candidate hypernym: newlywed: someone recently married → 0
Candidate hypernym: arabian camel: one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: vigor: active strength of body or mind → 0
Candidate hypernym: task force: a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypoxis: small plants that resemble amaryllis and that grow from a corm and bear flowers on a leafless stalk; sometimes classified as member of the family Amaryllidaceae: star grass → 0
Candidate hypernym: contrast: the act of distinguishing by comparing differences → 0
Candidate hypernym: scutellaria: an asterid dicot genus that includes the skullcaps → 0