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- noun Plural form of
tontine .
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Examples
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Rural women in Mali use a financial system based on an ancient indigenous tradition called tontines or merry-go-rounds, with a few key 21st-century improvements.
Suzanne Skees: Africa's Poorest Women Can Teach Us How to Manage Our Money 2010
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Rural women in Mali use a financial system based on an ancient indigenous tradition called tontines or merry-go-rounds, with a few key 21st-century improvements.
Suzanne Skees: Africa's Poorest Women Can Teach Us How to Manage Our Money 2010
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Rural women in Mali use a financial system based on an ancient indigenous tradition called tontines or merry-go-rounds, with a few key 21st-century improvements.
Suzanne Skees: Africa's Poorest Women Can Teach Us How to Manage Our Money 2010
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Rural women in Mali use a financial system based on an ancient indigenous tradition called tontines or merry-go-rounds, with a few key 21st-century improvements.
Suzanne Skees: Africa's Poorest Women Can Teach Us How to Manage Our Money 2010
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We offer annuities at rates graduated according to ages, on a sliding-scale infinitely more advantageous than what are called tontines, which are based on tables of mortality that are notoriously false.
The Illustrious Gaudissart Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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We offer annuities at rates graduated according to ages, on a sliding-scale infinitely more advantageous than what are called tontines, which are based on tables of mortality that are notoriously false.
Parisians in the Country Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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You should hear him on Tonti, the ass that started tontines.
The Wrong Box 2004
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Among these the most successful was the custom of receiving loans upon tontines.
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"Bank bubbles, tontines, lotteries, monopolies, usury, gambling and swindling abound," said the New York _Journal_; "poverty in the country, luxury in the capitals, corruption and usurpation in the national councils."
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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Lotteries were drawn, tontines established, letters of nobility offered for sale at two thousand crowns each.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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