Joseph assigned to his nephew his interest in the tontine, already quite a hopeful speculation.
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Tontine
//ˈtɒntaɪn//
Synonyms for "tontine" (7 found)
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Sample sentences
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When Joseph Finsbury and his brother Masterman were little lads in white-frilled trousers, their father—a well-to-do merchant in Cheapside—caused them to join a small but rich tontine of seven-and-thirty lives.
Source: wiktionary
There were many speculative schemes which gambled on the expectation of an individual's life, as in the tontine system, whereby all the group's contributions went to the last survivor.
Source: wiktionary
They were pleasantly high, but in an almost self-conscious way, as if they were members of a tontine blessed by the unexpected death of two or three of its members.
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