lump-sum

This is a fancy way of saying you should invest your money over a period of time as opposed to investing it all at once, which is known as lump-sum investing.

NYT > Home Page By PAUL SULLIVAN 2011

PNC booked a lump-sum gain of $328 million from selling an investment-servicing business and released $128 million in unneeded reserves for loan losses.

Regional Banks See Improved Earnings Marshall Eckblad 2010

Customers are told to stop paying their bills and instead send money to the debt-settlement firm with the intention of offering creditors a lump-sum offer for less than what's owed.

New federal rules take aim at shady practices of debt-settlement companies Michelle Singletary 2010

Here's how it works: If survivors request a lump-sum payment of the death benefit, Prudential opens a so-called retained-asset account, a quasi-checking account that allows families to draw money when they're ready to spend it.

Prudential profits from slain soldiers with help from taxpayers David Evans 2010

Ninety-five percent of survivors paid by Prudential ask for lump-sum payments, the VA says.

Prudential profits from slain soldiers with help from taxpayers David Evans 2010

Most signing bonuses are structured as lump-sum loans that essentially are forgiven if the broker stays at the new firm for the agreed-upon time, often five to 10 years.

Signing Bonuses Haunt Wall Street Aaron Lucchetti 2010

What the patient might seek is under such a system is a clinic that would provide them with services related to their condition in exchange for the 'going' lump-sum rate: consider the lump sum payment as a 'cancer voucher'.

Five Big Health Care Questions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Cash-balance pension plans, where employees stand to get a lump-sum payment at retirement based on a system of "credits," are poised to gain traction in the coming year.

Cash-Balance Pensions Stand to Gain Favor Jilian Mincer 2010

For example, if we use a model with lump-sum taxation, then spending today that employs resources that are unemployed due to contracting failures and financed by future tax increases is clearly welfare improving.

Matthew Yglesias » CFR’s Benn Steil Doesn’t Know the Velocity of Money is a Variable 2009

"Furthermore, I am concerned that some beneficiaries may not fully understand their right to obtain immediate, lump-sum payment of their benefits."

Senate approves teleworking bill Joe Davidson 2010