Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or connected with the reversion of an estate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or involving a reversion; enjoyable in succession, or after the determination of a particular estate.
- In biology, pertaining to or exhibiting reversion; tending to revert; reversive; atavic: as, reversionary characters; a reversionary process.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Law) Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate.
- noun (Law) That which is to be received in reversion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
reversioner . - adjective Pertaining to
reversion , especially that of anestate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion)
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Examples
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A good 8000£. a-year, and perhaps the title reversionary, or a still higher, would help me up with her.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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They could and did sponsor petitions to obtain reversionary interests in their estates but the monarch's permission was necessary before the petition could be granted.
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Similarly at Platform, borrowers are swapped onto what is called a reversionary rate, priced at a margin above base of between 1.5 per cent and 5 per cent.
unknown title 2009
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What conclusive evidence of the "reversionary" tendency in civilized man to a humbler state!
Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield
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` ` My dear sir, '' he said, ` ` we found this lady in a lamentable state of intoxication in the Tottenham Court Road, and as I understand you have a kind of reversionary interest in her, we have brought her here.
The Lunatic At Large 1905
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After a short pause he implied (but unfortunately he here became very confused and forgot a word, which on subsequent reflection I think was probably "reversionary") -- he implied that there was a chance, whether good or bad I know not, of his becoming possessed of some other property, and he finished by saying distinctly,
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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“My dear sir,” he said, “we found this lady in a lamentable state of intoxication in the Tottenham Court Road, and as I understand you have a kind of reversionary interest in her, we have brought her here.
The Lunatic at Large 1907
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Purchaser by such general [? consent/covenant] have the benefit of the reversionary 14 years given to the author as his assignee under the
Letter 284 2009
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It concludes that Equitable Life would still have closed for new business in 2000, applied MVAs and paid lower final and reversionary bonuses, just like every other with-profits company.
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Her reversionary grants to Northumberland present good evidence that she, like Mary, initially colluded with the Grey succession plan.
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