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a sum of money allotted for a specific use by official or formal action
his grandfather's will provided him with an annuity of $5,000 a year to be used for school expenses
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Recent Examples of annuities
The company’s offerings span retail life insurance and annuities, as well as workplace services including group benefits like disability and dental coverage, supplemental health insurance, and retirement plan services such as 401(k)s.
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Peter High, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Rental properties, dividend-paying stocks, annuities and even part-time consulting work can help supplement retirement funds.
—Bob Chitrathorn, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Accounts that aren't insured include stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, life insurance policies, municipal securities, and safe deposit box contents.
—Jason Lalljee, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
Annuity FAQs What are the downsides of annuities?
—Liz Knueven, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
Peter High, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Rental properties, dividend-paying stocks, annuities and even part-time consulting work can help supplement retirement funds.
—Bob Chitrathorn, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Accounts that aren't insured include stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, life insurance policies, municipal securities, and safe deposit box contents.
—Jason Lalljee, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
Annuity FAQs What are the downsides of annuities?
—Liz Knueven, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annuities
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The enhanced subsidies simply hide this glaring problem—at outrageous cost to taxpayers.—
Sally Pipes,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The analysts said that this was likely driven by Apple's price cut to the model versus the iPhone 16 base, and additional subsidies from the Chinese government.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
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Organizers have noted that across Minnesota, 124 school district levy questions will roll out before voters amid rising costs, state funding that has not kept pace with inflation and declining federal grants.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
19 Sep. 2025
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Among the African nations hit hardest, Uganda has endured thousands of layoffs in the health sector and terminated NIH and CDC research grants.—
Brian Simpson,
NPR,
19 Sep. 2025
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There were once 2,522 public domain allotments in California totaling 336,409 acres.—
Beth Rose Middleton Manning,
The Conversation,
15 Sep. 2025
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That’s reminiscent of what the despots of Eastern Europe did during the Cold War, building huge concrete apartment blocks with meager square-foot allotments per family.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Annuities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annuities. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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