Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Things carried or taken along in traveling; baggage, especially military baggage; impedimenta.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Life insurance policies which are sold at a discount to the face amount, or death benefit, of people who have been medically determined to have life expectancies (L/E's) of less than two (2) years to live.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The whole concept of viaticals is uncomfortable to me -- it's like another form of predatory loan -- and I'm glad you tackled it.
An Idea To Die For 2007
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He attended a seminar on "viaticals," a strategy popular in the early 1990s that was tailored to terminally ill AIDS patients wanting to sell their life-insurance policies.
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I made rules surrounding viaticals much more far ranging.
A Killer Idea 2007
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I made rules surrounding viaticals much more far ranging.
June 2007 2007
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Adore writers who can make things like viaticals and workplace/boardroom culture interesting and menacing.
A Killer Idea 2007
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I made rules surrounding viaticals much more far ranging.
An Idea To Die For 2007
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These banks will then package and resell those bonds (or viaticals) "to investors, like big pension funds, who will receive the payouts when people with the insurance die".
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This might be one of those ideas like the viaticals that Simon writes about.
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Fraud and investigations of alleged fraud in viaticals have happened in Vermont, Ohio, Maryland and other states.
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I made rules surrounding viaticals much more far ranging.
March 2007 2007
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