Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to traveling, a road, or a way.
- adj. Of or relating to a contractual arrangement in which a business buys life insurance policies from terminally ill patients for a percentage of the face value: a viatical settlement.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to a journey; viatic
- adj. Describing the purchase of an insurance policy from a holder who is terminally ill
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pertaining to the purchase of insurance policies from terminally ill policy holders
Etymologies
- From Latin viāticus, relating to a journey, from via, road; see via. Sense 2, from viaticum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This type of transaction is called a viatical life settlement.”
“Enter Jesse Bogdonoff, an American employee at the bank who convinced the king to invest the money in a pool of insurance backed investments called viatical contracts, managed by Millennium Asset Management.”
“If you Google the words "viatical" and "scam" or "viatical" and "fraud," you'll eventually come upon stories about Florida Democrat Bill Nelson, who found himself embroiled in the middle of a viatical settlement scandal (read this, for example).”
“As the residents aged, as the Hillside Home began to market itself to a sicker population, Gary used the band's appearances to evaluate acquisitions for his brother's viatical funds.”
“As he looks into the circumstances surrounding the death, he learns about viatical settlements.”
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“It is, if you invest in a life insurance product called a viatical.”
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“I thought they were already doint this with viatical settlements?”
“Investor funds collected by American Benefits were forwarded to another viatical (death futures) settlement company, Financial Federated Title & Trust, which spent only $6 million to buy interests in actual life insurance policies.”
“Patients needed money for treatment and viatical settlements provided the perfect vehicle for that.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘viatical’.
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Logolepsy
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Words that were new to me
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rememberers
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the Many Faces of Vagabonding
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