tontine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A form of investment in which, on the death of an investor, his share is divided amongst the other investors.

   “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.”